The Dobříš Torah scroll came to Indianapolis around the year 1986 from London. Originally there was an application to receive a scroll in the first the Jewish Holocaust museum at HHAI but there wasn’t a physical scroll here itself. This application was present when the museum first opened in August of 1996. Everything went through the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London, an organization which purchased hundreds of scrolls saved and stored in the Prague museum during WWII.
Eventually we received a scroll, scroll number 437 through the dedicated efforts of the family of Mrs Shirley Cohen whose parents were Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The scroll is now in our school, the Hasten Hebrew Academy’s new interactive Holocaust museum
Mrs. Shirley Cohen spoke to us about the Dobříš Torah Scroll arrival to our school
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