Bergen-Belsen machzor
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Walter Waholek
Walter Waholek donated this book to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 26, 2010. His father, Sgt. John Waholek, discovered the book outside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
Scope and Content
Consists of a machzor (Rosh Hashanah prayer book), which was discovered by Sergeant John Waholek outside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after the camp was liberated in April 1945. The machzor was published in Warsaw, Poland, in 1940. Sergeant Waholek, a member of the American Army, was sent to Bergen-Belsen to deliver supplies to the British forces that liberated the camp.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Rosh ha-Shanah--Liturgy--Texts.
Genre
- Document
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