Shimson Kleuger
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Shimson Kleuger was a Polish Holocaust survivor and the last openly Jewish person to live in the town of Oświęcim, Poland, from 1962 until his death in 2000. Although Oświęcim had a Jewish community m
Kluger in the 1950s
Shimson Kleuger's Auschwitz Cross
A tallit found at Kleuger House
Trousers from a concentration camp uniform owned by Shimson Kleuger, interned in three KZ camps
Tallit
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A tallit, taleth, or tallis is a fringed garment worn as a prayer shawl by religious Jews. The tallit has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The cloth pa
Shimson Kleuger
…which he reiterated his hope to leave Poland soon and join his brother and his family in Brooklyn, New York. Before departing, I presented him with a talit, a mezuzah, and two yarmulkes. He worked in the then Chemical Plant in Oświęcim (now Synthos), until he unexpectedly stopped showing up for work. Kleuger…
A white wool tallit, following one Sephardic custom
A folded tallit with the Chabad pattern
Chaim Moshe Zilbershitz seen with his Ashkenazic tallit