All remaining Jewish communities in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia sent their archives, artefacts and¬†Torah¬†Scrolls to the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Nothing was received from communities in the border areas of the pre-war Czechoslovakia.
216 of the Scrolls that came to Westminster Synagogue cannot be traced to any particular community, either because the number label for that Scroll became detached or because the information available is insufficient to relate them to a particular place.
When the Scrolls were received at Westminster Synagogue most had a number label attached. These numbers referred to the German Card Index that had been prepared by the Jewish curators at Prague‚Äôs Central Jewish Museum.
By relating the number label to the information¬†derived from the German Card Index, it can be¬†established from which Czech collection point¬†each Scroll had been received; some Scrolls¬†also had the Czech number painted on the rollers.
German Index page with details of 101,000 items
that were catalogued