YUDLOV 1441 HAGGADAH ROEDELHEIM 1874 2

YUDLOV 1441 HAGGADAH ROEDELHEIM 1874 2

Roedelheim Haggadah, 1874 – Berta Fröhlich

This Haggadah bears the ownership inscription: “Berta Fröhlich, Bad Mergentheim, 4 III 1898.” Research indicates that Berta Fröhlich (born 1873) later became a victim of the Holocaust, dying in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 at the age of 69. During the Nazi period she reportedly received an immigration certificate to Palestine but gave the permit to her daughter so that she could escape Germany. This Haggadah is witness into a poignant witness to the life, sacrifice, and fate of one German-Jewish family.

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