Iris Avni-Menzer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The collection primarily consists of pre-war photographs of the Menzer, Lamm, and Schlesinger families in Bratislava and Nitra, Novaky labor camp during the Holocaust, and survivors of the Holocaust in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. Also includes 1 memorial Yizkor list of Leopold and Rosa Menczer, Iris Avni's (Herta Menzer) paternal grandparents.

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• irn522160
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• folder 1
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The collection consists of three photographs of members of the Menzer and Steiner families from Nitra, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) who were killed in 1942.

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• irn522161
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• a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
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Set of tefillin used by Eduard Menzer, hidden and then recovered after the war by his wife, Aurelia. Tefillin are small boxes with leather straps used by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. The family was living in hiding in the Tatra mountains when, on December 13, 1944, German soldiers burst into the hut where Eduard was saying morning prayers. They yanked off his tallit and tefillin, threw them to the ground, and arrested Eduard. His wife, Aurelia, and daughters had run off, but later returned for the tefillin and pouch. They moved to another hiding place where Aurelia hid the ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522162
• English
• overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Green sateen bag used to store tefillin by Eduard Menzer, hidden and then recovered after the war by his wife, Aurelia. Tefillin are small boxes with leather straps used by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. The family was living in hiding in the Tatra mountains when, on December 13, 1944, German soldiers burst into the hut where Eduard was saying morning prayers. They yanked off his tallit and tefillin, threw them to the ground, and arrested Eduard. His wife, Aurelia, and daughters had run off, but later returned for the tefillin and pouch. They moved to another hiding place whe...