Yanov Torah
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The Yanov Torah is a hand-written copy of the Torah assembled from the individual sheaves of Torah manuscripts, smuggled into the Janowska concentration camp during the Holocaust in World War II. The Janowska, also known as the Yanov death camp, located not far from the Lwów Ghetto, was a place of execution of tens of thousands of Polish Jews between September 1941 and November 1943. A Sefer Torah, the holiest book within Judaism venerated by Jews, was reassembled by prisoners from manuscripts unearthed at Lwów's Jewish cemetery. Following World War II, it was smuggled out of the then Soviet Union and brought to Los Angeles. It has been donated to the rabbinical programs at Hebrew Union College,[1] where it is taken on tour to various synagogues and assemblies so that the story of its history can be told.
Editor | Rabbi Erwin Herman |
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Country | United States |
Language | Hebrew |
Published | Janowska concentration camp survivors |