Warsaw: After 70 years - the monastery returned lost Sefer Torah

Happy event in the Jewish community in Warsaw, Poland: Sefer Torah which was held in a monastery for more than seventy years was returned to a local synagogue, where it will be shown to Jewish worshipers and visitors.

Torah scroll was hidden at the monastery seventy years ago and returned this week to the local Orthodox synagogue.

Director of the monastery, Rev. Casimir Ritrovsky said that the Torah was given to the monastery secretly in 1942 by the caretaker of the synagogue Dabrowa Tarnowska, when the Germans raided the synagogue and decided to turn it into a workshop. The gabbai asked the priest who was then responsible for the monastery then keep the scroll until the synagogue operates again.

Over the years the building remained deserted, because of a minority of the remaining Jews. In recent years the department decided to renovate the historical sites of the synagogue and make it a Polish Jewish cultural center. During the project they renovated and preserved the room that served as a synagogue, and the ancient scroll was restored.

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!