Prayer book
Creator(s)
- League of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (Publisher)
- H. Meyer (Printer)
Archival History
The Hebrew prayer book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Anna Leist.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Anna Leist
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
Prayer book given to 10 year old Anna Zajac at the Ahavah Children's home in Germany in 1936. She took it with her when she escaped to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in December 1938. Anna's father, Wolf, was deported from Berlin to Poland in 1935. She and her eight siblings, with their mother, Dora, were planning to join him. But Dora was ill with tuberculosis and, except for the two eldest sons, Felix and Samuel, the children were placed in the Ahawah orphanage in 1936. Dora died on January 5, 1938. Samuel then left for Poland and Felix soon was deported. The brothers joined a Zionist group and, by 1940, escaped to Palestine. Anna and four siblings were sent on the second Kindertransport to Great Britain in December 1938. Another sister, Lydia, arrived in 1939; the two youngest, twins Hella and Hermann, were sent to Sweden. Anna emigrated to the United States in February 1948. She was soon joined by several of her siblings, all of whom survived the war.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
cloth; 140 p.
inside back cover, stamp, red ink : Ahawah Ausustrasse 14 - 15
Subjects
- Judaism--Liturgy--Texts.
- Siddurim--Texts.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials