The first glass fragment has a dark indigo hue to the glass, while still being opaque, and partial lettering of the disc shaped emblem, below the emblem a partial figure of the letter M, the full letter A, and a Partial letter of a C or G shape, all…
This artifact is about 1 ½in. by ½in. It is a wick raiser from a kerosene lamp produced by Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Co. in Connecticut in the late 19th-early 20th century. The artifact has the words “The P&A MFG Co. Acorn.”
During Kristallnacht in November 1938, the Nazis burned the Klagenfurt synagogue. The Torah scrolls were taken out to the street and burned, as well as the furniture. In 1944, a bomb destroyed part of the synagogue. In the aftermath of World War II,…