us-005578-irn47468-irn7127
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn47468-irn7127/alternateIDs/1
has or had some members with language: heb
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1938-12-31
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1934-12-31
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…
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn47468-irn7127/acquisitions/1
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Rectangular light brown paper poster with Hebrew calligraphy in black ink. There is a black border overall and the body of the poster has 14 outlined boxes of different sizes with Hebrew text within. The lower corners have graphic design details : painted boxes bordered with radiating black lines within rectangular black outlined boxes. There is paper backing adhered to the top front and reverse, possibly left from when it was framed. front, left and right corners, hand printed in black ink : Hebrew text [The page was prepared in honor of the birth of my son Shalom, known as Zali, who was born with Mazal Tov on Wednesday, during the week when Parashat Shemot is read (from the Torah), in the year 1918. He continues, here in Berlin, may the city thrive, by me, Yitzhak son of Menahem Ossowski, Shohet]
identifier: irn7127
has record set type: Item
title: Calligraphy of Sukkot prayers and a personal inscription created by a sofer
has or had holder: us-005578
scope and content: Welcome prayers for the festival of Sukkot (Succoth), or Feast of Tabernacles, with an inscription in honor of the birth of his son, Shalom, hand painted by Rabbi Isaac Ossowski in the fall of 1933. It was originally framed for display in their home. During the seven nights of the festival, which is similar to a harvest festival, celebrants are to build and have their meals in a succah or temporary hut built in remembrance of the forty years the Jewish people lived in the desert before reaching the Promised Land. The poster includes all the basic prayers for use inside the sukkah: the prayer for entering, a special prayer for the Sabbath in the sukkah, a prayer inviting the 7 Ushpizin, the main guests at dinner each night of Sukkot: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David, and a prayer recited upon exiting the sukkah. Rabbi Ossowski was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin. He was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practioner 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. The Ossowski family was repeatedly questioned by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) who gathered intelligence on opponents of the Nazi state and policed racial purity. In 1934, Isaac sent his youngest son, 14 year old 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.
is or was included in: us-005578-irn47468
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
record resource extent: overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)
type: RecordSet
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
archival history: The calligraphy of the Succoth prayer was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Rabbi Sol Oster, the son of Isaac Ossowski.
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1933-01-01
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1938-01-01