Sydney Jewish Museum Collection

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Actions Displays	Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2000/034:003 DescriptionThe Torah scroll from Hermanuv Mestec was written in 1880. This certificate confirms that Sydney Jewish Museum has Sefer Torah number 867, one of the 1564 Czech memorial Sifre Torah scrolls which constitued part of the treasures rescued and cared for by the Czechoslovak Government and then by the State Cultural Agency for Westminster Synagogue, where they arrived on 7 February 1964. Some of the collection of Torah scrolls remain at Westminster Synagogue as a permanent memorial to the martyrs from whose synagogues they come from; many of them are distributed throughout the world, to be memorials everywhere to the Jewish tragedy. SubjectRitual Object, Judaism, memorials Object namecertificates Materialpaper Dimensions height: 42.00 mm width: 3470.00 mm Credit lineOn permanent loan from the Memorial Scrolls Trust, London.

Object numberM2000/034:003

DescriptionThe Torah scroll from Hermanuv Mestec was written in 1880. This certificate confirms that Sydney Jewish Museum has Sefer Torah number 867, one of the 1564 Czech memorial Sifre Torah scrolls which constitued part of the treasures rescued and cared for by the Czechoslovak Government and then by the State Cultural Agency for Westminster Synagogue, where they arrived on 7 February 1964. Some of the collection of Torah scrolls remain at Westminster Synagogue as a permanent memorial to the martyrs from whose synagogues they come from; many of them are distributed throughout the world, to be memorials everywhere to the Jewish tragedy.

SubjectRitual Object, Judaism, memorials

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Credit lineOn permanent loan from the Memorial Scrolls Trust, London.

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