Shliach Finds 103 Nazi-Looted Torahs in Russia
Hungarian Jewish leaders say they have found 103 Torah scrolls taken from Hungary during the Holocaust in a Russian library.
Rabbi Slomo Koves said Tuesday the sacred texts were discovered in the manuscript section of the Lenin State Regional Library of the western Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. Koves said negotiations are underway with Russian officials to restore the scrolls and possibly display them in international exhibits.
Koves, of the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch community, called the find he helped make last year “of historical significance,” adding that Hungary’s government supports efforts to restore the scrolls.
A Torah is a hand-made copy on parchment scrolls of the first five books of the Old Testament.
Some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were killed in the Holocaust, while around 100,000 Jews live in Hungary today.
surprised
wow! its amazing!
Yossi Marozov
Boruch Hashme, Hope they will succeed, although not a new finding. I new about these Torah’s since 2000, Just did not know that they had a connection to Hungry
Dovid
Yossi:
Do you know anyone who has see these or any other Torahs in Russia ?
Dovid
Yossi Marozov
In the archives of many cities there are Sifrei Torah, Rabbi Shimi Bergman told me at the time that he checked out these Sifrei Torah in Nizhni and they were beyond Posul.. …(he showed me pictures then and a few years ago when he went again with Menachem Rabinovich) , Rabbi Shloimy Deitch had about 3-5 in his city archives, Rabbi Bold (karlin – stolin) Rabbi to Lvov told me the same is true by him….