Torah scroll torn into four pieces from a desecrated synagogue
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Torah scroll torn into four pieces from a desecrated synagogue
Torah scroll torn into four pieces from a desecrated synagogue
1938 November 09-1938 November 10
a: Height: 27.500 inches (69.85 cm) | Width: 52.500 inches (133.35 cm)
b: Height: 27.625 inches (70.168 cm) | Width: 52.250 inches (132.715 cm)
c: Height: 27.250 inches (69.215 cm) | Width: 59.375 inches (150.813 cm)
d: Height: 27.625 inches (70.168 cm) | Width: 27.875 inches (70.803 cm)
Torah scroll fragments from the Kluckygasse Synagogue in the 20th disctrict of Vienna, Austria, desecrated on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. The Torah scroll may have been taken from the orthodox shul. The Torah was torn into four pices and left on the street. It was picked up by a non-Jewish civilian, who stored it in his attic until giving it to the Archive of the Austrian Resistance.