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Succoth Activities program
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Succoth Activities program

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Date1943-10
Dimensionsoverall (closed): 7 7/8 in x 6 3/8 in; overall (open): 7 7/8 in x 12 7/8 in
ClassificationsDocument
Credit LineGift of Erwin Weinberg
Object number1999.A.881
Object DescriptionPrinted booklet made up of one page of paper, folded in half thereby creating four pages. With Biblical quotes and an explanation of the holiday, all Jewish personnel in the area are invited to attend the festivities and services. Erwin was doing basic training in Florida at this time.
Collections
  • Jewish Holidays
Keywords
  • English
  • Sukkot
  • Armies-US
  • Jews-Allied Armies
  • Ritual
  • Miami Beach
NotesErwin Weinberg was born in January 1922 to Lina Katz and Max Weinberg in Fulda, Germany. Max had a wholesale hardware store in Fulda. They had four children: Erwin, Hannah (Chana), Kurt (Shneur), and Meir. Nov. 10, 1938, Erwin and Max were arrested and sent to Buchenwald. As soon as they were arrested, Lina began writing to various yeshivas and Jewish organizations that might be able to take in her son. In December 1938 Erwin went "to study" in the Manchester Talmudical Yeshiva (no longer in existence). He mostly spent his time borrowing money from relatives and working to get his family out of Germany. The entire family, including grandmother Emma Katz, left Germany for England in the Spring of 1939. Erwin and his mother worked sewing machines and his father became a presser. In October 1940 the family made it to the US. In Philadelphia Erwin, Max, Lina and Hannah began working as sewing machine operators. Erwin joined the army in 1943. He ended up in intelligence as a driver for Col. Powell and a translator. Erwin left the army with rank of Corporal. In 1946 Erwin married, began peddling spices, candy and cigarettes, worked his way up to a wholesale store, and eventually as a partner with his brother-in-law, a wholesale distributor in New York.

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