Life cycles IN MEMORIAM ESTHER S. KAHN Esther S, Kahn passed away on Dec. 18, 2021, in Omaha. Services were held on Dec. 21, 2021, at Beth El Cemetery Omaha and officiated by Rabbi Steven Abraham. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Linda Kahn and husband, Allen I. Kahn. She is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Pam and David Gross; son and daughter-in-law, Marc and Kim Kahn; grandchildren: Julie, Greta, Stephanie Gross, Nathan and Christina and Zachary Kahn. Esther was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Nathan and Friedel Shersky, youngest of six children. She spent her married life in Omaha. Esther was a talented artist in quilting, needlepoint and fabrics. She was also a great baker and creative cook. Memorials may be made to the Nebraska Humane Society, 8929 Fort Street, Omaha, NE 68134.
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Sections of lost Torah scroll reappear 83 years after Kristallnacht
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The city of Görlitz, which recently completed a refurbishTOBY AXELROD ment of its synagogue, said it plans to work with regional BERLIN | JTA A German Protestant minister has handed over segments Jewish leaders to develop a plan for how to display, or poof a long lost Torah scroll to the city of Görlitz in southeast tentially restore, the fragments. Germany, 83 years after his father, a town policeman, came Görlitz’s “New Synagogue,” which dates to 1911, is the only into possession of them. one in the state of Saxony to survive Kristallnacht. It was While it is not unheard of for German non-Jews to turn rededicated as a house of worship and space for interfaith over religious objects that have been lost or hidden since the gatherings last summer. There are reportedly some 30 Jews Nazi period, the Torah scroll fragments took an unusually currently living in Görlitz. circuitous journey before coming to light last week. Some local Jewish leaders and activists were angered by The Torah had not been seen since Kristallnacht, the pogrom against synagogues and Jewish property in German-speaking lands on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938. According to Pastor Uwe Mader, 79, the minister who turned the fragments over to the town, the story began with his father, Willi Mader. Born in Görlitz in 1914, Willi was a young police officer in training when he was called to the synagogue on the night of the antiJewish pogrom. Uwe Mader told the Säschsiche Zeitung newspaper that his father never spoke Uwe Mader with the Torah scroll fragments he handed over to the city of Görlitz, Thursday, about what happened that Dec. 16, 2021. Credit: Pawel Sosnowski night, so it is unclear how the four Torah fragments actually the announcement that the fragments had been given to the ended up in the policeman’s hands. Uwe Mader believes they city rather than directly to the representatives of the Jewish must have been cut out by someone who could read the community, which would be the legal successor. Torah and carefully selected certain passages, including the But Zsolt Balla, state rabbi of Saxony and Germany’s first creation story and the Ten Commandments. post-war Jewish military chaplain, told the Jewish TeleThe fragments changed hands several times over the years graphic Agency that he was optimistic about plans for the of Nazi and later Soviet rule. scrolls after speaking with the town’s mayor, Octavian Ursu, In the late 1930s, Willi Mader brought the parchments for on Dec. 17. safekeeping to a friend in Kunnerwitz named Herta Apelt “We will be discussing strategies next week on how to proand her brother. They in turn brought them to their local ceed,” Balla said. pastor, Bernhard Schaffranek, who was installed in June According to the Säschsiche Zeitung, observers were 1940. Schaffranek hid the Torah parchments in his library. awestruck as city archivist Siegfried Hoche placed the four He died in July 1949. In 1969, his widow, Magdalena, handed fragments on a table at the city hall on Thursday. them to the new vicar in nearby Reichenbach, Uwe Mader, Ursu said in a statement that he was “grateful to have relikely knowing that it was his father who had first received ceived such a valuable historical treasure for our council them in 1938. archive” and that the city would “prepare its exhibition for Magdalena Schaffranek told Uwe Mader to tell no one, the public in close consultation with Jewish representatives and he kept his promise, not even telling his wife. He hid the of Saxony.” parchments inside rolls of wallpaper in his office. When he The governor of the State of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, moved to Kunnerwitz in 1977, he took the scrolls with him. said the fragments were “like a door into the history of GörWith the political turmoil of 1989 leading to German uni- litz of the past decades, which is now opening.” fication, Mader moved them to a locked steel cabinet, and Local Jewish community chair and cantor Alex Jacobowitz kept the key with him at all times. It wasn’t until the late viewed the parchments on Friday. He told the Jewish Tele1980s that Willi Mader finally told his son how he had begun graphic Agency that some of them appear to be “in relatively this chain of handovers. good shape, and could be used in a future Sefer Torah… othAfter decades of telling no one, last week Uwe Mader fi- ers are no longer usable, and should either be buried in a genally decided that the time had come to bring the parch- nizah or put into a permanent exhibit inside the Görlitzer ments to light. Synagogue.”
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