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A set of Jewish ritual phylacteries (tefillin) and a gold velour tefillin bag originally owned by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi.

Photograph | Photograph Number: N00602
A set of Jewish ritual phylacteries (tefillin) and a gold velour tefillin bag originally owned by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi.

A set of Jewish ritual phylacteries (tefillin) and a gold velour tefillin bag originally owned by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi.

Date
Circa 1940 - 1944
Locale
Budapest, [Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun] Hungary
Photo Designation
ARTIFACTS -- Objects -- Ritual Objects
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eva Hevesi Ehrlich

About This Photograph

Biography
Ferenc Hevesi (1898-1952) was chief rabbi of the Dohany synagogue in Budapest from 1943 to 1944. He survived the war in Budapest, and became the Jewish chaplain in the postwar Hungarian Army. He immigrated to the United States in the early 1950s.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Geography
Washington, DC United States
Artifact Photographer
Arnold Kramer

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Eva Hevesi Ehrlich
Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.245.9
 
Record last modified: 2002-05-09 00:00:00
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