The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is honored to display in our lobby a Torah rescued from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and provided to the Federation on permanent loan by the Memorial Scrolls Trust.
The scroll on display was rescued from Domazlice-Velhartice, Czechoslovakia.
The scroll is one of nearly 1,600 that were saved when Jewish communities throughout Czechoslovakia sent religious objects to Prague for safekeeping from theft or destruction by the Nazis. After World War II, the scrolls were left in storage until British philanthropists purchased them from the Czechoslovak government in 1964 and created the Czech Memorial Scrolls Trust. The scrolls have been loaned to Jewish communities around the world.
Torah scrolls are written on parchment in Hebrew, and contain the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The scrolls are among the last remaining religious objects connected to Jews murdered in the Holocaust. This scroll number is MST#818 and is from Dlažov in Bohemia.
Acquisition and display of the scroll at the Federation was made possible by Edee & Alfred Adler, Becky & Jack Benaroya, Bobbe & Jon Bridge, Babs & Edward Fisher, Toby & Albert Franco, Eileen & Robert Gilman, Lillian & Charles Kaplan, Lois & Benjamin Mayers, Sandra & Gerald Ostroff, Bernice & Martin Rind, Frances & Fred Rogers, Stacy & Ken Rudee, Faye & Herman Sarkowsky, Helen & L.E. “Pat” Stusser, Betty Lou & Irwin Treiger, Margaret & Sid Weiner, and Devorah & Ronald Weinstein.
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