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Witness History: The Lost Czech Scrolls

Presented and produced by

Alex Strangwayes-Booth

TX Date

28th Feb 2024

Editor

Kristine Pommert

Broadcaster

BBC World Service

Quotes

"I really enjoyed this one."

(Tom Bigwood, commissioning editor, Witness History)

On 7th February 1964, an unusual delivery was made to a synagogue in London. More than 1,500 Torah scrolls, lost since the end of World War II, were arriving from Czechoslovakia. The sacred Jewish texts had belonged to communities destroyed by the Nazis.

 Alex Strangwayes-Booth talks to 91-year-old Philippa Bernard about the emotional charge of that day, and how the scrolls were eventually restored and sent on to Jewish communities around the world.

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