Israel (Miedzyrzecki) Nahari collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9873
• English
• overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Brown cloth pouch used by Israel Miedzyrzecki to store his tefillin, which he kept with him while imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to 1942 and in hiding from 1942 to 1945. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Israel and his family, wife Rivka, and children Stela, Benjamin, Mordecai, and Genia, lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. They were forced into the Jewish ghetto in October 1940. In July 1942, the Germans began mass deporta...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9874
• English
• overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Head tefillin worn by Israel Miedzyrzecki to store his tefillin, which he kept with him while imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to 1942 and in hiding from 1942 to 1945. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Israel and his family, wife Rivka, and children Stela, Benjamin, Mordecai, and Genia, lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. They were forced into the Jewish ghetto in October 1940. In July 1942, the Germans began mass deportation...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9875
• English
• overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Hand tefillin worn by Israel Miedzyrzecki to store his tefillin, which he kept with him while imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to 1942 and in hiding from 1942 to 1945. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Israel and his family, wife Rivka, and children Stela, Benjamin, Mordecai, and Genia, lived in Warsaw during the German occupation which began in September 1939. They were forced into the Jewish ghetto in October 1940. In July 1942, the Germans began mass deportation...