Overview
- Brief Narrative
- The tefillin scroll was hidden during a pogrom in 1945 in Kielce, Poland.
- Date
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found:
1945
- Geography
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recovery:
Kielce (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph and Rose Lieberman
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)
- 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)
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The tefillin scroll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Rose and Joseph Lieberman.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 20:13:47
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521457
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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.