Yudlov 1403 Haggadah Roedelheim 1872 2

Yudlov 1403 Haggadah Roedelheim 1872 2

Franziska Rosenthal (19 June 1859 – 11 September 1942)

This Haggadah bears the inscription “Franziska Rosenthal, Wetzlar, 1 June 1880,” written when she was about twenty years old. More than sixty years later, during the Holocaust, Rosenthal was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she was murdered on 11 September 1942 at the age of 83. Her brief inscription preserves the memory of a Jewish life that began in ordinary family traditions and was later destroyed by Nazi persecution.

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