Isak Perelmuter family collection

Identifier: irn523380
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523380

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Sylvia Rozines, the daughter of Isak Perelmuter.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of tefillin and storage pouch, two prayer books, copy prints, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Isak Perelmuter and David Rozines families in Łódź, Poland, before and during the Holocaust and in Bad Reichenhal displaced persons camp in Germany after the the end of World War II.

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Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518523
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Prayer book which belonged to Isak Perlmutter, a survivor of the Łódź ghetto in Poland.
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518524
- English
- 1925
- Updated 1 year ago
Prayer book which belonged to Isak Perlmutter, a survivor of the Łódź ghetto in Poland.
Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518527
- English
- 1939-1945
- a: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) c: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Set of tefillin and a green velvet storage sack used by Isak Perelmuter. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Jewish males during weekday morning services. After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Isak, his wife, Chaja, and daughters, Dora, 13, and Cywia, 6, were imprisoned in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto. Isak delivered flour and the others worked in a bra and corset factory. There was never enough food and disease was widespread. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in the summer of 1944. Isak defied the deportation orders and the family hid until they managed to join ...

Isak Perelmuter family collection

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Prayer book

Prayer book

Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor