(Germany-US) A Bible Hidden in Attic While Nazis Invaded Reunited with Family's Heirs #germany #holocaust #usa
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Jan Meisels Allen
A bible hidden in an attic as Nazis invaded was reunited with family’s heirs after 80 years. It was found by a family who was renovating their home in 1990 where they found a double wall in the attic and found a chest. In the chest was a gilded Jewish bible that was 22 pounds and 30 inches high by three inches high. Embossed on the front are the words: “Die Heilige Schrift der Israeliten” — the Holy Scriptures of the Israelites.
The son of the family who found it held on to it for 30 years and then decided to sell it on eBay for $75. It was found that the bible belonged to Eduard and Ernestine Leiter, a Jewish couple from Stuttgart killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust when they were sent to Theresienstadt, a ghetto and concentration camp outside Prague. The Leiters were send to Treblinka where they were murdered. Their son Sali was the lone family survivor.
Through LinkedIn she found one of the grandchildren whose grandmother, also a survivor, was still alive. The German synagogue found someone who would bring it personally to the United States and delivered it to the family.
To read the story see:
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Sniderlh
What an incredible find, and amazing story. To see this bible reunited with the current generation of family makes you believe in fate/good karma/a huge stroke of luck. It's uplifting to hear all the steps so many people went through to make this happen.
Thank you for sharing this. -- Leah Heilpern Snider Silverdale, Washington/ USA |
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M Tobiasiewicz
Unfortunately, you need to purchase a subscription to read this artlcle.
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David Brostoff
On Aug 25, 2021, at 12:57 PM, m_tobiasiewicz@... wrote:
Here is a link to the same article in a different newspaper a few days earlier: <https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-family-hid-their-bible-in-an-attic-as-nazis-invaded-almost-80-years-later-it-was-reunited-with-the-familys-heirs/> David Brostoff |
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David Brostoff
On Aug 25, 2021, at 2:08 PM, David Brostoff <davbro@...> wrote:
Minor correction: The article at the link above was published on the same day as the one at the original link, not a few days earlier. David Brostoff |
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Jan Meisels Allen
Maryellen Tobiasiewicz said a subscription to the Washington Post is required to access the article I posted. As Maryellen is located in Europe there may be a different requirement for access for US newspapers. In the U.S. one is entitled to three free reads on Washington Post so if one is being requested to purchase a subscription, then they must have used the free articles for the month, I do not have a subscription to the Washington Post and was able to access it with no subscription. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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