Hebrew Voices #101 – Torah Scrolls from the Holocaust
In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Torah Scrolls from the Holocaust, we learn how 1,564 Torah Scrolls escaped the Nazi’s attempt to make the Jews extinct. The chairman of the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London explains how these scrolls survived … Continue reading →
In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Torah Scrolls from the Holocaust, we learn how 1,564 Torah Scrolls escaped the Nazi's attempt to make the Jews extinct. The chairman of the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London explains how these scrolls survived the Holocaust, gives us a VIP tour of the museum, and we look at an ancient scroll they didn't even know they had until my visit.
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Hebrew Voices #101 - Torah Scrolls from the Holocaust
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Nehemia: Guys, if you’ve ever heard of a Torah scroll from the Holocaust, and if it’s authentic, there’s a very good chance it came from this place here.
Benjamin Netanyahu: Le ma’an Zion lo ekhesheh, u’l’ma’an Yerushalayim lo eshkot. (For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest. Isaiah 62:1)
Nehemia: Shalom, this is Nehemia Gordon and I am in London, England today at the Memorial Scrolls Trust, with Jeffrey Ohrenstein. Shalom, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: Shalom.
Nehemia: I grew with up with the story, Jeffrey, that many Jews have heard, about the Torah scrolls saved from the Holocaust. The story that we were told – and I’ve shared this story, because it’s what I was told – was that the Nazis decided to create a museum which was going to be a propaganda piece. They were going to wipe out all the Jews and then show the generations to come in their thousand-year Reich, what Jews had looked like, what their material culture was. So they gathered up all the riches of the Jews of Europe, including their Torah scrolls, brought them to Prague in a museum which, either they called it this, or it was intended to be, a Museum of the Extinct Race. That’s the story everybody knows. Can you share with the people what your understanding of the story is?
Jeffrey: As Nehemia said, I was also brought up with the concept of this museum of an extinct race that the Nazis had planned for after the war, and as you said, as a potential thousand-year Reich. But in reality, there’s no historical proof that one can really allocate to the story. There are no documents, and to the best of our knowledge, in fact, the idea of a museum of an instinct race was first mentioned after the war.
Nehemia: So as far as we know from all the extensive Nazi documents, they don’t mention that this is one of their plans.
Jeffrey: There is nothing mentioned.
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Wait, did he say they were wrapped in swaddling cloth:
Luke 2:7
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
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Luke 2:12
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
PRAISE YEHOVAH PRAISE HIM FOREVER
Thanks for this fascinating look into this important work of historic preservation. My cat will be blogging on this information soon at http://www.georgiacat.com. No bias here, but Nehemia is my nephew of whom I am extremely proud. I know he will continue his enthusiatic effort of educating himself and others about Torah and Judaism.
The “value” of the silver adorning the Torah Scrolls/Scrolls reminds me of a verse in Matthew 23:16-21 where Yeshua was Condemning the Pharisees concerning swearing by the temple/gold of the temple and the altar/gift on the altar. Amazing how many times in listening to your program I have noted a like similarity.
Absolutely fascinating! Great to see you doing video Nehemia, this episode needed it.
This is wonderful. I was intrigued by the last part on the binders because I have a commercial embroidery business and have actually been commissioned to make them. They are also called wimpels – from Yiddish. Originally cut from the swaddling used after the birth, I use new linen and they are used to wrap the baby’s arms close to his body during the brit. Often, they are kept and incorporated into the chuppah at the time of marriage. Really cool. Thanks.
A remnant shall be saved. Thanks to yhwh.
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