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(Jewish Group) Shofar that survived Auschwitz shown in New York exhibit
A Jewish ram’s horn instrument hidden and blown behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz was shown publicly for the first time Monday in New York, where it will be included in an exhibition.
The shofar — a wind instrument traditionally used at services during the Jewish High Holidays, whose sound is a call for mercy — was obtained by the former prisoner Chaskel Tydor during a “death march.”
During these marches, Nazis forced prisoners to walk on foot in winter to other camps as Soviet troops encroached.
Tydor survived the Holocaust and moved to Israel before emigrating to the United States.
He kept the shofar until his death in 1993, when it was passed on to his family.
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