Our precious Holocaust Torah!
At our Grand Opening festivities in 2011, we formally welcomed this very special Torah. In 1940, this Torah scroll was buried underground in Warsaw, Poland, and was thereby saved from the horrific inferno of the Holocaust. In the years since, this Torah changed hands a number of times and fell into a state of disrepair.
We have become the stewards of a valuable piece of history, thanks to donors Sam & Trudy Adwar, who entrusted it to us saying, "It is in good hands at Chabad of Naples."
And thanks to the generosity of Ellen A. Goldman & Sam Savage , and Ben-Rachel Federman & Rachel Federman this resilient and historical treasure has been fully restored to proper and usable condition.
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), which begins tonight, is a time of remembrance. Not only do we honor the survivors, we also honor the special neshamot who are not with us.
We never stop mourning what we’ve lost, but at the same time, we never stop living. We go on building and rebuilding; planting and replanting. We go on teaching our children. We go on celebrating and standing together, bringing comfort and support to one another. Am Yisroel Chai!