Herman Schwartz collection

Identifier: irn521515
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Herman Schwartz.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Torah mantle and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Schwartz while a soldier in the United States Army in France and Germany during World War II.

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Green velvet Torah mantle with 10 Commandments found by a US soldier
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514382
- English
- 1905
- overall: Height: 28.250 inches (71.755 cm) | Width: 21.125 inches (53.658 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Damaged green velvet Torah mantle found by Herman Schwartz, an American soldier, in the debris of a synagogue in Saverne, [Sabern or in German, Zabern or Schwenheim] France, desecrated by German forces at the beginning of the German occupation, June 1940-November 1944. He cut the mantle out of a pile of rubble with his bayonet. It has an applique of the 10 Commandment tablets with elaborate gold metal thread embroidery, a gift of the Women's Society in 1905. Jews had lived in the town since the 14th century. German troops destroyed the upper level of the synagogue, built in 1898-1900, to re...
Herman Schwartz photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn521516
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Herman Schwartz photograph collection consists of four photographs of corpses at Dachau concentration camp at liberation and one photograph of three liberated Jewish prisoners at Dachau showing the tattoo marks on their arms.

Herman Schwartz collection

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Green velvet Torah mantle with 10 Commandments found by a US soldier

Herman Schwartz photograph collection