Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Megillat Esther, the scroll of Esther, read on the Jewish holiday of Purim carried by Anton Spitzer when he moved to Iasi, Romania, in 1931. Shortly before he was taken away by the Nazis in 1944, Anton hid the scroll in a cellar in the Iasi ghetto. He recovered it when he returned to Iasi after the war in 1945. The family would read from this scroll on Purim in Iasi until they immigrated to Israel in 1950.
- Artwork Title
- Megillat Esther
- Date
-
creation:
before 1931
- Geography
-
use:
Iasi (Romania)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nathan Shaffir
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Classification
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Jewish Art and Symbolism
- Category
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Jewish ceremonial objects
- Object Type
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Scrolls (lcsh)
- Genre/Form
- Publications.
- Physical Description
- Megillat Esther scroll composed of parchment and handwritten Hebrew text.
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Bible. O.T. Esther--Commentaries. Purim.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Megillat Esther was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Nat Shaffir, the son of Anton Spitzer.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-07-29 09:08:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43055
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Spitzer family photographs
Document
The Spitzer family photographs consist of seven prewar, wartime, and postwar photographs of the Spitzer family of Iași, Romania and their relatives. The photographs depict Anton and Fany Spitzer and their children, Sara, Nathan, and Lily as well as Fany’s sister and brother, Chana and Lazar Wax, and a cousin, Simcha Wax.
