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350-year-old Torah scroll returns to Vilnius

BC, Vilnius, 27.06.2016.Print version

A 350-year-old Torah scroll that was used during Jewish religious services at the Vilnius ghetto during World War II is returning to the Lithuanian capital, informs LETA/BNS.

 

The authentic handwritten Torah scroll is being returned to the Vilnius Choral Synagogue by British photographer Judah Passow.

 

"What is important is no so much the Torah scroll itself, but the man's decision to donate it to our Synagogue. It was his family's Torah, safeguarded during the war and all these years. This is a great honor for us," Faina Kukliansky, leader of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, told BNS.

 

The family of the award-winning photographer safeguarded the Torah scroll for 56 years after it was taken out of the country following the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto.





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