Interpreting Artifacts at Amud Aish: Tallis Bag
As we are currently in the midst of the Three Weeks and the Nine Days in the lead up to Tisha B'av it is an appropriate time to look back at how our people have been affected by this long diaspora and what they have taken with them on their journeys. Throughout Jewish history, no matter what was happening around them, Jews tried to cling to their faith, their traditons, and their ritual objects.
In January 1939, at 14 years of age, Moshe Shulevitz traveled on a Kindertransport from Furth, Germany to England. He carried this navy blue tallis bag that his father Gedalia had made for him in honor of his bar mitzvah in 1938. The tallis bag became a precious link to the loved ones he left behind as well as to his traditions.
Moshe lived in youth hostels in England until 1944. At the age of 19, Moshe enlisted in the Jewish Brigade, a military formation of the British Army that was commanded by British-Jewish Officers and served Europe during World War II.
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Interpreting Artifacts at Amud Aish: Final Correspondence
In commemoration of #YomHashoah Dr. Henri Lustiger-Thaler discusses the significance behind final correspondences between families separated by the #Holocaust. Where was your family during the Holocaust? Do you have any letters for relatives that did not survive? #NeverAgain #NeverForget #HolocaustRememberanceDay
Interpreting Artifacts at Amud Aish - Matzah Cover
Pesach 1935:
Leiba Kubel, a Bais Yaakov student and seamstress in Nasielsk, Poland embroidered a beatiful matzah cover. Leiba’s sister and brother-in-law lived in America and she sent this to them as a gift. Leiba’s last communication with her sister in America was letters sent from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941. She was not heard from again.
On this Pesach, let us remember bchol dor vador, in every generation people try to destroy us but the Jewish people continue to survive through our faith and connection to Hashem.
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Interpreting Artifacts at Amud Aish - Bais Yaakov Diploma
This seminary diploma and teacher’s certificate issued to Yenta Wrobel (Mannes) was signed by Sara Schenirer herself. It was issued in Krakow, Poland in 1933. Like several thousand Polish Jews, Yenta escaped to Shanghai during the Holocaust.
While in Shanghai, Yenta was a teacher in the Bais Yaakov that was established there. Many of Yenta's students became Bais Yaakov teachers themselves. Even today, the legacy of Sara Schneirer and the Bais Yaakov lives on.
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Shimie Lax, Boardmember at Amud Aish, shows us a report card from a young boy from Sosnowitz, Poland named Shmuel Hirsch Jacobowitz. Shmuel Hirsch's father was in America trying to make money to send back to his family in Poland. Despite the distance, the Jacobowitz family regularly communicated across the world, such as Shmuel Hirsch mailing his father this report card. By the time Shmuel Hirsch's father realized that he needed to try and get his family over to safety in America, it was too late. In 1942, the mail stopped arriving and Shmuel Hirsch was killed.
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Interpreting Artifacts at Amud Aish - Shechitah Poster
Shoshana Batya Greenwald, Director of Collections at Amud Aish Memorial Museum and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center, shows us a poster with an instructional diagram and text detailing the laws of shechitah (kosher ritual slaughter). The poster was produced by the Schlesinger bookstore in Germany before the Holocaust and is currently in Amud Aish's archival collection. This tells the story of Jewish life before the war, a story we continue to tell throughout Amud Aish's collection. At Amud Aish we focus on the resilience of the Jewish people by showing examples of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.
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Rabbi Sholom Friedmann, Director and CEO at Amud Aish, shows us a #kiddush cup that was discovered in Poland after the #Holocaust. It had been found hidden in the walls of a what was presumably a Jewish home before the Holocaust. Many Jews hid their precious belongings in their homes before being deported or fleeing their homes. For more information, check out amudaish.org. #GoodShabbos #ShabbatShalom #Shabbos #Shabbat
Miryam Gordon, Education Program Coordinator at Amud Aish, shows us a doll that belonged to a young girl named Hinda Penner. Hinda lived with her family in Berlin, Germany before the Holocaust. After Kristallnacht, Hinda's parent sent her and her twin brother on the Kindertransport to safety in England. Hinda's parents miraculously survived the Holocaust and they all managed to reunite in New York City afterwards. For more information, check out http://www.amudaish.org/
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Yossie Kleinman, Boardmember of Amud Aish, shows us a prewar antisemitic puppet found in Poland after the Holocaust. It illustrates the horrific idea that antisemitism was so widespread that even what should have been an innocent plaything was antisemitic.
Antisemitism isn't the focus here @AmudAishMuseum, but it is essential to contextualize just what Jews were up against during the Holocaust. Amud Aish displays no graphic images that depict violence, rather the focus is on the experience of Jews from their perspectives.
We choose to tell the stories of resilience and strength, because those are empowering and inspiring. We focus on the challenge of maintaining one's sense of Judaism in the midst of the Holocaust. We choose to tell the stories of resilience and strength, because those are empowering and inspiring. May we continue to learn from the past to empower the present.
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Shoshana Greenwald, Director of Collections at Amud Aish, shows us some #antisemitic postcards that are in Amud Aish's archival collection. More information can be found at amudaish.pastperfectonline.com/archive
Miryam Gordon, Education Program Coordinator at Amud Aish, shows us the challah cover that Edit Horowitz embroidered before the Holocaust. When she was deported, it was cherished by her sister Magda who eventually donated it to Amud Aish shortly before she passed away. Does the challah cover you use tell a story? Have a Good Shabbos! #shabbatshalom #goodshabbos #challahcover #holocaust #museum #museumeducation #interpretingartifacts
Rabbi Sholom Friedmann, Director and CEO at Amud Aish, discusses Rabbi Mordechai Lubart and his commitment to Judaism during the Holocaust as he fled to Shanghai. More information can be found at https://amudaish.org
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Shoshana Greenwald, Director of Collections at Amud Aish, shows us the photo album containing 60 black and white photographs depicting the Erlbach family in pre war Germany with their young children. More information can be found at amudaish.pastperfectonline.com/archive/A4A07483-E7F0-4581-9FE8-241176981010.
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Remembering Kristallnacht
This November 9 -10 marks the 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.