The Torah fragment was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Max Houss.
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Fragment of a desecrated torah scroll discovered by Max Hausspiegel (later Houss) in the rubble of the Pforzheim synagogue in the days following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. He took the torah fragment with him when his family emigrated to the United States in the spring of 1939.
Torah fragment from the Pforzheim synagogue