Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Found by Solomon Zukowski, post WWII, Grodno, Poland. Given to Dr. Felix Zandman who brought them to Israel and gave them to the Grodno Survivors Association. Saved from the synagogue of Grodno, Poland (now Hrodna, Belarus). The Torah pointer and breast plate are the last surviving artifacts from the Synagogues of Grodno. These objects were found by Solomon Zukowski, a Jewish resident of Grodno. He was hidden in the nearby village of Lososna by a Christian family after the Nazis invaded. After the war he returned to Grodno and found these objects in the debris of the synagogue. They were the only objects salvaged as everything else was robbed or destroyed. The pointer and breast plate were brought to Israel by Dr. F. Zandman (a survivor of Grodno) who visited Grodno as a tourist. He gave them to the Grodno Survivor's Association, which entrusted them to Dr. Gila Flam who brought them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Date
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creation:
1870-1880
found: approximately 1945
- Geography
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found:
former synagogue site;
Hrodna (Belarus)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Grodno Survivors Association
Physical Details
- Classification
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Jewish Art and Symbolism
- Category
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Jewish ceremonial objects
- Object Type
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Torah breastplates (ushmm)
- Physical Description
- Inscribed on the front are the ten commandments and the crown of the Torah.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 6.890 inches (17.501 cm) | Depth: 0.240 inches (0.61 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
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 Torah breastplate was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by the Grodno Survivors Association.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-10-07 11:16:22
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Also in Grodno Survivors Association collection
The collection consists of artifacts discovered after the end of World War II on the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno, Poland, now Hrodna, Belarus.
Date: approximately 1945
Torah pointer recovered postwar from the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno
Object
Found by Solomon Zukowski, post WWII, Grodno, Poland. Given to Dr. Felix Zandman who brought them to Israel and gave them to the Grodno Survivors Association. Saved from the synagogue of Grodno, Poland (now Hrodna, Belarus). The Torah pointer and breast plate are the last surviving artifacts from the Synagogues of Grodno. These objects were found by Solomon Zukowski, a Jewish resident of Grodno. He was hidden in the nearby village of Lososna by a Christian family after the Nazis invaded. After the war he returned to Grodno and found these objects in the debris of the synagogue. They were the only objects salvaged as everything else was robbed or destroyed. The pointer and breast plate were brought to Israel by Dr. F. Zandman (a survivor of Grodno) who visited Grodno as a tourist. He gave them to the Grodno Survivor's Association, which entrusted them to Dr. Gila Flam who brought them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
