Book

Identifier
irn73557
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.455.24
Dates
1 Jan 1863 - 31 Dec 1863
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Archival History

The prayer book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Irma Cohn Clemens, the daughter of Artur Cohn.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Irma Cohn Clemens

Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Scope and Content

Die Heilige Schrift, The Holy Scriptures, a book brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's uncle, Dr. Leo Nast, had emigrated to the US in 1934. He sponsored the Cohn family's visa applications and they left for New York in May 1940.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Leipzig : Druck und Stereotypie der Nies'schen Buchdruckerei (Carl B. Lorck) : In Commission bei Louis Gerschel in Berlin, 1863

Subjects

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