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Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.6

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Miniature Torah preserved by Johanna Baruch Boas while living in hiding in Brussels, Belgium. The Torah belonged to her husband, Bernhard, and was possibly used while traveling. Bernhard died in Berlin in 1932. Johanna carried it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939, with her daughter’s family. The Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940 and enacted punitive anti-Jewish legislation. Soon they were deporting Jews to concentration camps. Johanna buried the yarmulke and other religious items to keep them safe during the occupation. Johanna survived with the help of her non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In December 1944, she was reunited with her 11 year old niece, Beatrice Westheimer, who had fled Germany with her. She had lived in hiding in a small village, but her parents and an uncle had been deported and killed at Auschwitz. Johanna and Beatrice immigrated to the United States in 1946.
    Title
    Miniature Torah scroll
    Date
    use:  1932
    found:  1945
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Beatrice Muchman

    Physical Details

    Classification
    Jewish Art and Symbolism
    Object Type
    Torah scrolls (lcsh)
    Physical Description
    Miniature paper Torah scroll with printed Hebrew text wound on a wooden dowel with red plastic handles. Blue discs with Asian characters surround the scroll. The outer wrapping is white cloth with a yellow band on the edges. The cloth has a gold colored printed design of a crown flanked by Hebrew text; beneath are tablets flanked by 2 lions, within a scrollwork design. Beneath this is a 6-pointed Star of David and the word Genesis written in English to the left of the star and written in Hebrew to the right. The scroll is a long piece of paper made up of sections with printed blocks of Hebrew text.
    Dimensions
    Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
    overall: Height: 135.380 inches (343.865 cm) | Width: 4.620 inches (11.735 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, wood, plastic, cloth, ink, adhesive

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The miniature Torah was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Beatrice Muchman, the granddaughter of Johanna Baruch Boas.
    Record last modified:
    2024-10-03 11:27:04
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