Joachim Hahn collection

Identifier: irn84034
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn84034

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Joachim Hahn.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Torah scroll and publications relating to the cultural history of Jews in Nazi Germany.

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Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn2563
- English
- overall: Height: 29.125 inches (73.978 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Torah scroll that was used as kindling during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, near Bad Duerkheim, Germany. It was received by a pastor from a man with whom he was visiting. The pastor noticed that the man was starting a fire in his fireplace with fragments of a torah roll and asked to have it. The pastor later gave the scroll to Dr. Joachim Hahn. It is unknown what town the roll came from originally.
Pamphlet
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn2565
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn2566
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
Schwäbischer Merkur (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [Newspaper]
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn2567
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
[Newspaper]
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn2568
- English
- Updated 7 months ago

Joachim Hahn collection

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Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling

Pamphlet

Book

Schwäbischer Merkur (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [Newspaper]

[Newspaper]