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Conservation of Artifacts in the Artifacts Collection

Conservator Alexandra Borovok in the textile conservation laboratory of the Artifacts Collection, restoring a doll that belonged to a child confined in the Budapest ghetto, August 2013
Conservator Alexandra Borovok in the textile conservation laboratory of the Artifacts Collection, restoring a doll that belonged to a child confined in the Budapest ghetto, August 2013

Conservator Alexandra Borovok in the textile conservation laboratory of the Artifacts Collection, restoring a doll that belonged to a child confined in the Budapest ghetto, August 2013
Alexandra Borovok, a conservator of the Artifacts Collection preparing the mantle of a Torah scroll from Salonika for display in the Yad Vashem Synagogue, June 2005
Alexandra Borovok, a conservator of the Artifacts Collection preparing the mantle of a Torah scroll from Salonika for display in the Yad Vashem Synagogue, June 2005

Alexandra Borovok, a conservator of the Artifacts Collection preparing the mantle of a Torah scroll from Salonika for display in the Yad Vashem Synagogue, June 2005
Conservator Dodo Shenhav doing restoration work on street lamps from Leszno Street in the Warsaw ghetto, in advance of their display in the Holocaust History Museum in Yad Vashem, March 2005
Conservator Dodo Shenhav doing restoration work on street lamps from Leszno Street in the Warsaw ghetto, in advance of their display in the Holocaust History Museum in Yad Vashem, March 2005

Conservator Dodo Shenhav doing restoration work on street lamps from Leszno Street in the Warsaw ghetto, in advance of their display in the Holocaust History Museum in Yad Vashem, March 2005
Conservator Eliyahu Matzkin restoring a detail on the façade of a Torah Ark from a synagogue in Hârlău, Romania, in preparation for its display in the Yad Vashem Synagogue, June 2005
Conservator Eliyahu Matzkin restoring a detail on the façade of a Torah Ark from a synagogue in Hârlău, Romania, in preparation for its display in the Yad Vashem Synagogue, June 2005

Conservator Eliyahu Matzkin restoring a detail on the façade of a Torah Ark from a synagogue in Hârlău, Romania, in preparation for its display in the Yad Vashem Synagogue, June 2005
A cantor’s hat that was donated to the Collection, before and after restoration carried out in preparation for the artifact’s loan to an exhibition in Munich, June 2012
A cantor’s hat that was donated to the Collection, before and after restoration carried out in preparation for the artifact’s loan to an exhibition in Munich, June 2012

A cantor’s hat that was donated to the Collection, before and after restoration carried out in preparation for the artifact’s loan to an exhibition in Munich, June 2012
A concentration camp inmate’s shoe, before and after conservation, June 2012
A concentration camp inmate’s shoe, before and after conservation, June 2012

A concentration camp inmate’s shoe, before and after conservation, June 2012
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