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He told her that he wanted to hand the prayer book back to the descendents of Shmuel Rosenberg and scheduled a meeting with the extended Rosenberg family in Kfar Saba.Ĭhaya Eichel, Esther’s daughter described her anticipation before the meeting. Shachor immediately contacted Esther and told her the story of the how the Machzor came to be in his possession. A search on Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victim’s Names revealed that Pages of Testimony were submitted for Shmuel and Margitte Rosenberg by Shmuel’s granddaughter Esther Rosenberg-Weisel in the year 2000. Yad Vashem researchers were able to decipher the name of Rosenberg’s hometown as well as Margitte’s Yiddish name, Meittel.
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Shachor decided to contact Yad Vashem to learn more about the book and it’s owners. In the aftermath of the war torn years that followed, as the winds of the Nazi invasion wreaked devastation on European Jewry, only the Machzor and a father’s warm wishes for his daughter survived - Shmuel and Margitte were both murdered. Rosenberg, a Melamed - a teacher of Jewish studies, lovingly inscribed the Machzor in poetic Hebrew, as follows: “I purchased this for my remarkable daughter as a reflection of my deep love for her/ to inspire her heart to pray from this finely crafted book/ in her youth, in her father’s home.” In September of 1938 Shmuel Rosenberg of Hajdunanas, Hungary presented his daughter Margitte with a Machzor – a special prayer book for the Jewish High Holidays.