Dohány Street Synagogue
The synagogue's 27 Torah scrolls were saved from Nazi desecration by two priests who buried them in a Christian cemetery and returned them after the war. Other objects from the adjoining Jewish Museum were hidden in the cellar of the National Museum for safekeeping.
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