Prayer book

No restrictions on access Collection consists of a prayer book imprinted on front cover "vom Bethaus im IX. Bez. Wien" and "zur Erinnerung an die Confirmation" and inscribed inside "an die Confirmation der Alice Goldschmied 3 June 1900"; published 1895, Prague; in German and Hebrew. The book was found by the donor while he was working for the Viennese Jewish Community circa 1941/1942. The prayer book was found in a subterranean storage room and kept with donor through deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp and liberation. It was found among other religious books such as a Pentateuch most likely rescued from being destroyed during the November pogrom in Vienna