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2 I April 16,2009
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Stolen from the Ark 10
survivor To rah s make
symbolic journey home
By Nancy Fine
It's been nearly 67 years since a set
of 10 Torah scrolls shared a place in the
Holy Ark in what was once the syna-
gogue on Valdecka Street in Horovice,
Czechoslovakia.
In May 1942, the Nazis ordered the
lewish communities to send all their
liturgical objects, books and archive re-
cords to the newly established Central
lewish Museum. During the Second
World War, almost 1,800 Torah scrolls
became part of the museum's collec-
tion.
Under Communist government
control in the 1950s, the museum was
forced to move out of its headquarters
and given several other buildings, many
in a state of disrepair. One of those
buildings, a synagogue in the Prague
district of Michle, became the site for
the storage of the collection of scrolls.
In 1963, a London, England art
dealer, Eric Estorick, arranged for the
acquisition of 1,564 of those Torah
scrolls, and in 1964, the scrolls were sent
to the Westminster Synagogue in Lon-
don. Part of the agreement between the
Czechoslovak state and the new owner
was that the Torah scroll s were not al-
lowed to become commercial items.
Since that time, the scrolls have been
entrusted, on a permanent loan basis,
to congregations throughout the world,
serving as memorials to the devastated
lewish communities in Bohemia and
Moravia.
In 2000, my then 12-year-old son
Zachary brought one of these scrolls to
Texas as part of his bar mitzvah project,
and so began our connection to a small
Bohemian town an ocean away
With the help of the Memorial
Scrolls Trust, we located all 10 scrolls
that came from the synagogue on Val-
decka Street. One went to a congrega-
tion in Ontario; another, to a library
and lewish studies department of a
university in New York; two came here
to Dallas (one at Congregation Beth
Torah, and the other at the Dallas Ho-
locaust Museum/Center for Education
and Tolerance); one is in New Hamp-
shire ; three are in congregations in New
York; one is in Massachusetts; and an-
other is in Florida.
These scrolls have become woven
into the fabric of our lives and our re-
ligious communities. Some have been
used for bar and bat mitzvahs, or held
lovingly on the bimah as the cantor
chants the Kol Nidre prayer, and oth-
ers are remembered on Yom HaShoah,
with the "reading of the names" of the
lews of Horovice and the recitation
This Torah, originally from the Horovice synagagogue is now housed at the Dallas
Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance.
Community Holocaust Observances:
> April 20,7 p.m. Temple Shalom, Dallas
• April 20, 7 p.m. Cong. Beth Shalom, Arlingtonc
of the Kaddish prayer in memory of
them all.
After nine years of searching for a
survivor with a link to Horovice, we
have finally found a "living connec-
tion," a brilliant and lovely woman,
Eva Rocek. Eva is a Holocaust survi-
vor whose grandfather, Julius Bondy,
was the head of the Jewish commu-
nity in Horovice in 1903. Eva and her
husband Jan's story is amazing. Not
only did they survive the Holocaust
but, in 1960, they, along with Eva's
mother and two young sons (ages 4
and 6), jumped off a boat in Dan-
ish waters to seek asylum and escape
Communism.
Corresponding with Eva and her
family has been a delight. Through
Eva's eyes we have a much greater
understanding of that time and
place. With their assistance we lo-
cated a letter from Theodor Herzl
congratulating Julius Bondy on the
dedication of the synagogue in 1904.
"These scrolls have
become woven into
the fabric of our lives
and our religious com-
munities. Some have
been used for bar or bat
mitzvahs...and others
are remembered on Yom
HaShoah."
Nancy Fine
Additionally, with their help, we
communicated with the minister of
the church that worships in what was
once the synagogue in Horovice.
Drahomira Duskova Havlick-
ova is a Protestant minister who is
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