Andrew and Rose Hausman collection

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Set of tefillin owned by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn43872
- English
- 1949
- a: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Pair of tefillin owned by Adolf Hausman, who was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Tefillin are small boxes with leather straps used by Jewish males during morning prayers. After German forces occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944, Adolf, his father, Shmuel, and sister, Rose, were confined to the Berehove ghetto. In May, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and a week later Adolf was sent to Auschwitz-Monowitz. Shmuel was killed in Birkenau immediately after arriving. In September, Adolf was transferred to Gleiwitz I labor camp. In February 1945, the inmates were fo...