Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling
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1938 November
The torah scroll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Joachim Hahn.
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Damaged Torah scroll used as kindling
overall: Height: 29.125 inches (73.978 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)
Torah scroll that was used as kindling during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, near Bad Duerkheim, Germany. It was received by a pastor from a man with whom he was visiting. The pastor noticed that the man was starting a fire in his fireplace with fragments of a torah roll and asked to have it. The pastor later gave the scroll to Dr. Joachim Hahn. It is unknown what town the roll came from originally.
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Parchment with burn marks and singed edges. It is fragile and warped.