Two towns, 6,000 miles, and one aging Torah scroll: Holocaust document connects two Jewish communities

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a relic of a bygone Jewish community 6,000 miles away.

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