The artifact came to America with my grandma, my father's mother, when she had to leave Frankfurt Germany because of the Nazis. It had been my great grandma's Channukiah. The menorah belonged to the Strauss family.

It is very special to my family because it had been used for many many years in my family, and now we use it every Chanukah. The menorah is important in the celebration of Chanukah. It symbolizes the number of days the oil had lasted in the temple.

Some day I will pass it on to my children.