Interviews share Holocaust survivors’ history

After defeating the Nazis in World War II, Allied forces found warehouses filled with torah scrolls stolen from communities left without survivors. These scrolls, then placed in the Memorial Scrolls Trust, were distributed to synagogues throughout the world to hold as a loan. One of them, safeguarded in the arc of Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains, is from Rakovnik, a town in the former Czechoslovakia.

“We keep it in our arc as a testament to the people of Rakovnik and all of those who died,” Rabbi Mara Young told the Dispatch. “We as a temple community have the responsibility of holding on to this scroll and telling the story of the people of Rakovnik, even though I've never met them.”