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LOT 67:
Rare and Unique Item: Pair of approx. 100-Year-Old Tefillin
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Start price:
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1,800
Estimated price :
$5,000 - $10,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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VAT: 18%
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Rare and Unique Item: Pair of approx. 100-Year-Old Tefillin
'A brand plucked from the fire' - a touching, historical item that survived the Auschwitz extermination camp.
Maroon, embroidered fabric bag, with a pair of Tefillin, shel Rosh and shel Yad, with the original Parashiyot inside them.
The pair of Tefillin had belonged to a Jew of a famed, important and pedigreed family (confirmation will be given by the family) who miraculously managed to hide them while he was in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Only few Judaica items managed to be hidden in the camp, their owners risking their lives to keep them. Thus, this touching item is unique and invaluable.
The Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp in Southern-Poland was the largest extermination camp built by Nazi Germany during WWII. Approx. a million two hundred people were murdered there, a million one hundred of them, Jews. It was also the extermination camp that operated the longest (from June 1940 to January 1945). At its peak, Auschwitz was a complex of 45 camps that spread over 40 square kilometers.
