VENTURA COUNTY STAR: Holocaust Torahs find new life at synagogues
Holocaust Torahs find new life at synagogues
By Terry Lee Goodrich, McClatchy Newspapers
Saturday, October 6, 2007
FORT WORTH, Texas — Nearly 40 years ago, Beth-El Congregation obtained a Torah — a parchment scroll containing the first five books of the Bible — that survived the Holocaust, although most of the Czech Jews who treasured it did not.
Beth-El, in Fort Worth, Texas, recently installed an exhibit paying tribute to the scroll’s poignant history.
The Torah, from a small farming community called Uhrineves in Czechoslovakia, is one of 1,564 such scrolls seized by Nazis as they deported Czech Jews to concentration camps and death camps.
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