However, In 1963, Artia officials, in charge of the collection approached Eric Estorick, a well-known London art dealer, to ask him what might be done about the scrolls. Estorick brought in Chimen Abramsky, a historian and acknowledged authority on Hebraica and Judaica.  Abramsky examined the scrolls, about 250 scrolls had no protective covering. Others were swathed in tattered prayer shawls. He found two scrolls wrapped in a woman's garment. Another was tied with a small belt from a child's coat. One scroll was spattered with human blood. From one of the scrolls a scrap of paper fell out, apparently left there by a scribe who had examined the scroll in 1940 to see whether it was in need of repairs. "Please, God, help us in these troubled times," the note read. "It was quite incredible to see this," Abramsky said in London. "I burst into tears."

Finally in February of 1964, more than 1,500 Torah scrolls arrived in London, each representing hundreds of Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia that had been wiped out in the Holocaust. They had traveled across Europe to England in five sealed railroad cars, the largest shipment of Torah scrolls known in Jewish history. From the London railroad station they were reverently transferred to their temporary home, the Westminster Synagogue in London. Over the years, these Scrolls have been adopted by Jewish communities all over the world, to be cherished as memorials to a tragic past but at the same time to be read and studied by a new generation of Jews, the guarantors of Jewish survival and rebirth.

Over 1400 of the Scrolls have been entrusted on permanent loan organizations around the world more than 1,000 in the USA. They remain the property of the Trust. The majority are now at synagogues such as ours and other Jewish institutions, with several at universities, and elsewhere including at the Royal Library Windsor and the White House.