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The reverse side of a Torah scroll fragment offered for auction in Norway, bearing a handwritten German address. The auction house claimed the parchment had been used by SS soldiers to wrap a package sent to Germany during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of RUTH: Remember Us The Holocaust, via JTA)

JTA — A Torah scroll fragment believed to have been used as wrapping paper by Nazi SS soldiers is expected to be donated to a US Holocaust remembrance organization after a Norwegian auction house listed it for sale last week, sparking an outcry.

A spokesperson for Israel’s Foreign Ministry told JTA that Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar had directed the ministry and Israel’s embassy in Norway to intervene to prevent the sale of “a sacred manuscript looted by the Nazis.”

“Thanks to the embassy’s efforts, the auction was canceled and the parchment will be donated to a Holocaust remembrance organization in the United States,” the spokesperson said.

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