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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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Parochet, dark-blue

The last days of the Jewish Institute for the Blind in Vienna

Vienna

This dark blue parochet (curtain for covering the Torah Ark in a synagogue) is part of the collection of the Israelitisches Blindeninstitut (Jewish Institute for the Blind) in Vienna. The institution was established in 1871 with the purpose of educating blind Jewish students. Professions taught ranged from manual occupations to translating and interpreting. Due to its excellent reputation, the school attracted students not only from Austria, but also from most other European countries. March 4 was one of its last days of undisturbed activity.


TAGS: ANSCHLUSS, ART, DISABILITY, JEWISH COMMUNITY, MARCH 4, RELIGION, SYNAGOGUES, VIENNA, WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS

SOURCE

Institution:

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Collection:

Parochet

Original:

Inv. No. 2837

 

on the days before

March 3
Harold MacMichael
March 2
End of “The Eternal Road”
March 1
Destination Uruguay

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