Poland, Jewish community buries old Torah in ancient ritual
The 74th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising
20 April, 15:29Poland's chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich said that the ritual was "about remembering that for us the Torah scroll is so important, is so holy, that when it's no longer usable we bury it as if it was a human being." The community buried fragments of the scrolls at the capital's Jewish cemetery. (ANSA)