Prayer book

Prayer book 

Prayer book 

Collection consists of a prayer book imprinted on front cover"vom Bethaus im IX. Bez. Wie" and"zur Erinnerung an die Confirmatio" and inscribed inside"an die Confirmation der Alice Goldschmied 3 June 190"; published 1895, Prague; in German and Hebrew. The book was found by the donor while he was working for the Viennese Jewish Community circa 1941/1942. The prayer book was found in a subterranean storage room and kept with donor through deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp and liberation. It was found among other religious books such as a Pentateuch most likely rescued from being destroyed during the November pogrom in Vienna