City Of Fort Worth: Learn How A Torah Scroll Made Its Way From Prague To Fort Worth

Press release from City of Fort Worth:

January 18, 2022

In 1942, Nazis gathered religious objects from synagogues across Czechoslovakia and shipped them to Prague to be cataloged.

Among those ritual items were 1,564 Torah scrolls. Three decades later, one of those sacred Hebrew scrolls made its way more than 5,300 miles to Fort Worth.

Join Hollace Ava Weiner, director of the Fort Worth Jewish Archives, and Rabbi Emeritus Ralph D. Mecklenburger of Beth-El Congregation to learn about the scroll’s journey. The special presentation is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, in the Tandy Lecture Hall at the Fort Worth Public Library-Central, 500 W. Third St. The event is free and open to the public.

The scroll left the Czech village of Uhříněves in 1942, spent more than 20 years in a drafty warehouse and eventually arrived at a Fort Worth synagogue in 1971 to begin its mission anew.

The program may appeal to people personally impacted by the Holocaust or with family members who were, and those interested in World War II history and also historical fiction based on the events of the time.

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