Hanna Marx family collection

Identifier: irn523204
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523204

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Hanna Marx, the wife of Helmut Marx.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experience of Hannelore (Hanna) Simons Marx and Helmut Marx in Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.

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Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn35929
- English
- 1945-1947
- overall: Height: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) | Width: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Bimah cover, a cloth for covering a Torah stand, that was desecrated during the destruction of the synagogue in Hamm [Oberlandesgerichtsbezirk], Germany, on Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. It was recovered from the street by Felix Simons, a synagogue member who lived behind the temple. He entrusted the bimah to non-Jewish neighbors for safekeeping. It was retrieved after the war by his daughter, Hanna. In 1941, the Simons family, Felix, his wife, Johanna, and 3 children, Hanna, Fritz, and Rudy, were deported to the ghetto in Riga, Latvia, and in 1943, to the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration c...
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn35930
- English
- 1961
- Updated 7 months ago

Hanna Marx family collection

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Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht

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