2026. október 28, szerda, 20:20
What could one purchase with boxes of Crisco, bags of coffee and cartons of cigarettes in chaotic postwar Germany?For Moishe Saksenhaus, a young Holocaust survivor from Belarus, the answer was: two Jewish ritual textiles, hundreds of years old.The seller said he’d stolen them himself from a burning Berlin synagogue on Nov. 9, 1938 – the November Pogrom, commonly called Kristallnacht.Moishe brought those two items – a Torah wimple, or sash, and a parochet, or Torah ark curtain – with him to America,