Torah fragment from the Pforzheim synagogue
Archival History
The Torah fragment was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Max Houss.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Max Houss
Scope and Content
Fragment of a desecrated torah scroll discovered by Max Hausspiegel (later Houss) in the rubble of the Pforzheim synagogue in the days following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. He took the torah fragment with him when his family emigrated to the United States in the spring of 1939.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Genre
- Jewish Art and Symbolism
- Object
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