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Tefillin scroll hidden during a pogrom

Object | Accession Number: 2000.551.2
2000.551.2 front Tefillin scroll hidden during a pogrom Click to enlarge

The tefillin scroll was hidden during a pogrom in 1945 in Kielce, Poland.

Date
found:  1945
Geography
recovery: Kielce (Poland)
Language
Hebrew
Classification
Jewish Art and Symbolism
Category
Jewish ceremonial objects
Object Type
Scrolls (lcsh)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph and Rose Lieberman

About This Object

Physical Description
Long strip of coiled parchment with hand-written Hebrew text in ink. The scroll is distorted, stiff and dirty.
Dimensions
overall: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The tefillin scroll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Rose and Joseph Lieberman.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 20:13:47
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Also in Joseph and Rose Lieberman collection

The collection consists of an identification card, photographic negative, and tefillin scroll relating to the time period of the Holocaust.

Date: 1945

Joseph and Rose Lieberman papers

Document

The papers consist of a black and white photographic negative showing a person walking near several low, barracks-type buildings in a concentration camp and an identification card issued to "Josef Liberman," a Jewish ex-prisoner of Dachau concentration camp, by the Jewish committee of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration on July 10, 1945, in Germany.

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