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Twenty Torahs, 2,000 Holy Books Found Intact in Plock Synagogue; Museum to Be Set Up

August 10, 1947
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Twenty Torahs and 2,000 sacred books which remained ##idden throughout the period of the Nazi occupation in the attic of the synagogue in ##lock were brought here today and will probably be distributed to various communities. ##he Jewish community of Plock was deported in 1941 to the extermination camps in ##reblinka and Oswiecim.Miraculously, the scrolls and books, as well as the synagogue in which they ##ere discovered, are all in perfect condition. The synagogue will soon house a special ##mseum featuring the records of the Polish Jewish martyrs who were killed during the ##ar.

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