Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Segment from a desecrated torah Found by Zbyszek Romaniuk in Bransk, Poland.
- Geography
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found:
Bransk (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jack and Sonia Rubin. In memory of our parents, Issac and Bella Weinstein and David Hersh and Pearl Rubin who perished in the hands of the Nazis.
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
- Segment of a desecrated torah.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, 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 torah scroll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Jack and Sonia Rubin.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 11:21:57
- This page:
- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn5644
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Also in Jack and Sonia Rubin collection
Consists primarily of 24 photographs. Many have inscriptions in Yiddish, and include many pre-war images of Jack Rubin's family from Bransk, Poland. The donor, Jack Rubin, immigrated to the United States under the sponsorship of his Uncle, Arthur J. Sussel.; Mr. Sussel appears in some photographs while visiting relatives in Bransk before the war. The collection also includes Torah scroll fragments.
Jack and Sonia Rubin photographs
Document
Consists primarily of 24 photographs. Many have inscriptions in Yiddish, and include many pre-war images of Jack Rubin's family from Bransk, Poland. The donor, Jack Rubin, immigrated to the United States under the sponsorship of his Uncle, Arthur J. Sussel.; Mr. Sussel appears in some photographs while visiting relatives in Bransk before the war.
Desecrated Torah scroll fragment found in Poland
Object
Segment from a desecrated torah found by Zbyszek Romaniuk in Bransk, Poland.
