Brooklyn, NY – A Torah cover lost during the Holocaust was returned to family members today.
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The heirloom, looted in 1938, arrived after the Vienna City Council voted unanimously to transfer the item from the city’s Jewish Museum to a Chasidic congregation, Congregation Adas Yereim in Brooklyn.
The 35 recipients who accepted the artifact were descendants of Miriam Wesel, who commissioned the cover before fleeing to the United States.
The New York State Banking Department’s Holocaust Claims Processing Office facilitated the five-year negotiation process.
The original report is correct. Mr. Bauer is a descendants of Miriam Wesel,
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I think it was the. G. Bauer family not Wesel, don’t know from where you take that Wesel name.
Torah mantle was not simply returned. It took many years of effort by Mrs. Kohl who discovered it in the Jewish Museum in Vienna.Without muscle by Gov Pataki staff noone was “returning” anything…..