Thread by @AbbyChavaStein

I am speechless (an understatement)!

This (likely) is the Shofar my great-grandfather smuggled into, and blew in Auschwitz!!!!

I grew up with this story. He writes about it, but we THOUGHT THE SHOFAR IS LOST.

The @MJHnews has had it for a while, NOT KNOWING WHO IT BELONGED TO.

Yesterday, as I visited the @MJHnews in Manhattan, I came across the Shofar, and this is what it says next to it:
"We do NOT KNOW by whom, and we do not know who blew it."

I felt like I was gonna faint, reading it, and seeing it!!!
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This is what my (maternal) great-grandfather writes about it:

"Shofar Blowing in Auschwitz:
By the great mercy of God and with miracles, I managed to bring in 1 Shofar into the camp. ON ROSH HASHANAH DAY I WENT FROM BLOCK TO BLOCK, WITH THE SHOFAR IN MY HANDS, TO BLOW IT."
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Here is a bit more of what he writes about that Rosh Hashanah in Auschwitz:
INCLUDING THE ROSH HASHANAH SERMON HE GAVE IN THE DEAD CAMP. And a story of the last word of 1,400 teens he got to blow Shofar to before they were gassed.

Will maybe translate later if I have time.