Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Torah scroll fragment desecrated and used as an envelope.
- Date
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creation:
1943 March
postmark: 1943 March
- Geography
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use:
Germany
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Vicki Schulkin and Hartley Jones
- Markings
- recto: stamp postmarked, verso: German National Insignia
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- 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
- Piece of cut scroll, folded in shape of mailing envelope, addressed and stamped.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 9.610 inches (24.409 cm) | Width: 12.640 inches (32.106 cm)
- Materials
- overall : parchment, paper, ink, adhesive
- Inscription
- inscribed, recto, in blue ink "feldpost [underlined]/frau/Lisbeth Toelle/Witten-Ruhr [underlined]/Tannenberg 17" verso: Toelle/46177C"
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Torah scroll fragment was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Vicki Schulkin and Hartley Jones.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-30 11:58:14
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8598
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