Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Desecrated Torah scroll from a synagogue in Marburg, Germany, that was vandalized during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. The scroll was given to Joseph Tauber in the late 1960s for safekeeping by an unnamed German woman who told him that the scroll was desecrated during the Night of Broken Glass or Kristallnacht. It had been given to her to preserve by the person who took it from the synagogue in order to protect it.
- Date
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found:
1938 November 09-1938 November 10
- Geography
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found:
Marburg (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph and Helena Tauber
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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Torah scrolls (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- b. fragment in the roughly in the shape of a triangle
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)
- Materials
- overall : parchment, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The desecrated Torah scroll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Joseph and Helena Tauber.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:33
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn4375
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