Sefer Torah - Užventis

Faivel Heilig and his oldest son, Louis, carried this sefer torah from Uzventis on their journey to North America in 1899. Following Louis' death in 1929, the torah passed to his youngest son who was then living in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The torah served a small Jewish congregation in northern Vermont for many years. When that congregation could no longer sustain intself, one of Faivel's great-grandsons brought the torah to his congregation on Bainbridge Island, WA  where it now resides in the ark at Congregation Kol Shalom.

               

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