Large pot used by a Romanian Romani as a distilling device for making peasant brandy

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The pot was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989. 
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Large pot used by a Romanian Romani as a distilling device for making peasant brandy 
a: Height: 5.380 inches (13.665 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 4.120 inches (10.465 cm) 
Belonged to Toma Racloro, a Romanian Romani. When he was deported from Baranesti (near Slatina) to Transnistria in 1942, he left some cookware with a Romanian peasant. Toma died; after 1945, his wife got the pots back from the peasant. This pot was used as a distilling device to make, tuca, a prune brandy. 
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a= pot; b= lid 

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