Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner (2nd L) hands over the decoration for a Torah roll to Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar (4th L) as Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L), Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum (5th L) and cantor Chaim Adler (C, top) look on during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. Getty Images logo Getty Images 24 months ago

Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner (2nd L) hands over the decoration for a Torah roll to Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar (4th L) as Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L), Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum (5th L) and cantor Chaim Adler (C, top) look on during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis.

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