Torah breastplate
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)
Archival History
The Torah breastplate was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by the Estate of Lucie Sternberg Rosenberg.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of the Estate of Lucie Sternberg Rosenberg
Scope and Content
Breast plate: silver, 19th century, for a Torah scroll entrusted to Lucie Sternberg Rosenberg by her father Manfred Sternberg. Manfred Sternberg was born in 1892 in Slavonska Pozega in the former Yugoslavia. The breast plate was likely carried from Zagreb, Croatia from where the family fled in 1941 to the United States [through Europe] and then entrusted to Lucie.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Inscribed on the front are the ten commandments and the crown of the Torah with two lions
Genre
- Object
- Jewish Art and Symbolism