us-005578-irn47468-irn7106
has or had holder: us-005578
identifier: irn7106
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn47468-irn7106/alternateIDs/1
has record set type: Item
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1900-01-01
type: RecordSet
scope and content: Tefillin and bag used by Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany. Tefillin are 2 small black leather boxes containing Torah verses that are worn on the arm and head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Rabbi Ossowski was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practitioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scribe], and hazan [cantor, or musical prayer leader] at the Alte Shul [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, increasingly severe sanctions were enacted against Jews. Isaac was repeatedly questioned by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In 1934, he sent his youngest son, 14 year old Sally (Sol), to Lithuania to study at a yeshiva. In 1936, his sons, Joseph and Leo, left for the United States. In 1938, Isaac and his wife, Frida, and their daughter, Nettie, escaped Nazi Germany and joined Joseph in the US. Sol joined them there in 1939.
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1943-12-31
physical characteristics and technical requirements: a. Dark blue velvet rectangular drawstring pouch with a light blue cloth lining and a gray drawstring. There are 2 Hebrew letters embroidered in dark blue thread on one side and a curvilinear pattern on the other. b. Dark brown, black painted, square leather box with Hebrew letters within a circle stamped on top sewn with giddin, gut from a kosher animal, to a rectangular black painted, 3 layer platform wrapped within long, dark brown leather straps. The straps pass through an opening on the platform to secure the batim [boxes]. c. Dark brown, black painted, square leather box with Hebrew letters within a circle stamped on top, sewn with giddin, gut from a kosher animal, to a rectangular black painted, 3 layer platform wrapped within long, dark brown leather straps. The straps pass through an opening on the platform to secure the batim [boxes]. a. back, center, embroidered : YO [?] b. top, center, embossed : Hebrew letters c. top, center, embossed : Hebrew letters
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record resource extent: a: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 6.620 inches (16.815 cm) b: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.880 inches (4.775 cm) c: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn47468-irn7106/acquisitions/1
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1938-12-31
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1938-01-01
biographical history: Isaac Ossowski was born in 1877 in Lubraniez, near Warsaw, Poland, to an extremely devout family and Hasidim, with a long tradition of religious study and service, as hazan [cantors], shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohels [perform ritual circumcision], and sofers [scribes.] His father, Menahem, was a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt, born in 1888. They had three sons, Joseph, (1915-2011), Leo (b. 4/1/1913), and Sol (1919-2011), and one daughter, Nettie. Rabbi Ossowski became head shochet, overseeing the ritual slaughter of animals in Berlin. He also served as hazan, mohel, and sofer for the Alte Shule [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, the persecution of Jews became official government policy. Rabbi Ossowski and members of his family were interrogated several times by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In 1934, due to the threatening anti-Semitic climate of the Nazi state, he sent his young son, Sol, to Lithuania to study at a yeshiva. In 1938, Rabbi Ossowski, with his wife and daughter, escaped Nazi Germany for the United States. They joined their sons, Joseph and Leo, who had settled in the United States in 1936. Their son, Sol, joined them in the United States in 1939 after completing his rabbinical studies in England. Rabbi Ossowski, 66, died in Ohio in 1943. Sally (Sol) Ossowski was born on January 1, 1919, in Berlin, Germany, to Frieda Schwartzbardt, born in 1888, and Rabbi Issac Ossowski, born in 1877 in Lubraniez, Poland. Sol had two brothers, Leo, born on April 1, 1913, and Joseph, born in 1914, in Pfungstadt, and a sister, Nettie. His father was a prominent and active member of the Jewish community, serving as a shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scribe], and cantor. The family at…
has or had some members with language: heb
title: Pair of tefillin with blue velvet bag used by a Jewish refugee
is or was included in: us-005578-irn47468
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
archival history: The tefillin and bag were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Rabbi Sol Oster, the son of Isaac Ossowski.