Dr. Joel Kushner, left, and Rabbi Richard N. Levy unroll the Yanov Torah during a ceremony at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion near USC. The Torah survived the Holocaust by being cut into pieces, hidden during the war and reassembled afterward. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Rabbi Erwin Herman devoted the final years of his life to telling its remarkable story of the Yanov Torah. His grandson, Matt James, and widow, Agnes Herman, present the scroll during the ceremony. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Agnes Herman, 86, hugs a friend after the dedication, where she said, “The Yanov Torah is a true child of the Holocaust. A survivor.” (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Kushner and Herman during the hand-over, which came as Jews this month commemorate the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when Germans rampaged against their Jewish neighbors, destroying synagogues, killing dozens and rounding up thousands for deportation to concentration camps. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
