Gift of Evelyn Broome

Id no. 343.92, Book, Yiddish, Italian, Hebrew

1923 to 1944, Italy, Florence

Subject(s):  Book burnings, Jews-Allied Armies, Desecration

Sidney Broome, who served in the medical corps of the US Army for four years, retrieved this water damaged machzor from a pile of burned books. He inscribed it in Yiddish on the inside flap: I found and recovered this machzor out of a pile of burned seforim on Rosh Hashanah 5705/1944. In memory of how the Nazis burned a synagogue and all the rest of Florence, Italy. Yizroel Yitzhok Broome.