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Prayer shawl
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn47821
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Prayer shawl : woven, sewn, machine, embroidered, cut work, knotted : beige, black, grey-brown, white
- Date
- 1936
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Prayer shawl : woven, sewn, machine, embroidered, cut work, knotted : beige, black, grey-brown, white
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- 1936
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- On either side are 4 thick black vertical lines. An embroidered band (the neck band known as an atarah) is attached to the top edge, with an intricate white design of a helix with Stars of David. The corners have been reinforced, with a hole cut out of each, with a knotted string (tzitzit) passed through. Fringe is attached to both wide ends. Narrative: Item was bought by Martin Lewin for his son’s Bar Mitzvah, sent to Switzerland with rest of family’s belongings during war, sent to Montreal after Lothar was released from Canadian internment camp
- Accession No.
- 2011X.224.50
- Name Access
- Ludwick, Annette
- Places
- Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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