Mezuzah from the house of Szymon Kluger

Full name: Mezuzah from the house of Szymon Kluger in Oświęcim, Poland Traditionally placed on the right-hand side doorpost of a Jewish house, a mezuzah is a piece of parchment encased in an ornamental box. It contains a hand-written excerpt from “Shema Yisrael” (Hebrew: Hear, O Israel), a Jewish prayer and a confession of belief in one transcendent God, taken from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 11:13-21). This unassuming plastic mezuzah is of no exceptional artistic value. Its importance is symbolic, as it is part of the collection of objects found in the house of Szymon Kluger (1925–2000), the last Jewish inhabitant of Oświęcim. For more images and further information, visit: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/3005 Inventory number: MZ-348-O Localisation of the physical object: Auschwitz Jewish Center, Oświęcim, Poland Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” project