Why do Russians hide a hundred Torah scrolls?

Rabbi in Hungary revealed today (Tuesday) that he found a hundred Sifrei Torah stolen from synagogues during the Holocaust in Hungary, and hidden in a library in Russia, according to a Reuters' website.

Rabbi Shlomo Kovesh, Chabad emissary and Rabbi of the Hungarian Community, discovered the Sifrei Torah by chance while visiting a scientific library in Novograd located just 400 km east of Moscow.

In 2006, Russia returned to Hungary 100 ancient books which arrived at the scientific library from Eastern Hungary.

But it is still long until Sifrei Torah that belonged to synagogues in Hungary, will be returned to the community, since the Russians still have not decided what to do with them.

At a press conference held by Rabbi Kovesh in Budapest, he said that the Russians removed from the Torah scrolls all the identifying signs that were on them, "but I have no doubt that these are Torah scrolls stolen from communities in Hungary," said the Rabbi and presented to reporters a videotape in which the ancient Torah scrolls are scene in a dismal state.

This year the Jewish community will mark 70 years since Hungarian Jews were exiled to Auschwitz. More than five hundred thousand Hungarian Jews were murdered.

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