Gift of Malka Litman in memory of her brother Mordekhai Akkerman

Id no. 2002.A.6, Textile

circa 1903, Ukraine, Balta

Subject(s):  Defiance-religious and cultural, Ritual, Bar mitzvah, Prayer shawls

Akkerman managed to keep his prayer shawl with him in various ghettos in the Ukraine from 1942 to 1944. It had been a bar mitzvah gift about 1903.