In 1988, a small note in the newspaper made me sit up and take notice: Straubing was home to the only synagogue in Bavaria that had not been destroyed or burnt down during the pogrom night of 1938, and the Torah scroll had been saved by a Straubing citizen and returned to the new Jewish community after the war.
During my initial research in Straubing, I came across a wealth of evidence to support this. A member of the Jewish community confirmed that he had received the Torah scroll carefully packed after the war. A 90-year-old former policeman said that he had been sent to the synagogue after the pogrom night to inspect the damage: A Torah scroll was no longer there at the time, he said. However, a “Straubing Citizens’ Campaign for Law and Order”, which was represented in the city council with over 7 percent, also made the presence of National Socialist and anti-Semitic thinking frighteningly clear.

“Jews were resident in Straubing until 1442. After their expulsion, a small Jewish community began to settle in the middle of the 19th century. In 1897, the Straubing Jewish community was founded, which initially set up a prayer room. The community soon began building a synagogue, which was consecrated by the district rabbi Dr. Seligmann Meyer in 1907 after five months of construction. The synagogue, designed by architect Hans Dendl, had 100 seats for men and a gallery with 60 seats for women.

During the November pogrom of 1938, the interior of the synagogue was completely destroyed, but the building itself was preserved.

After the end of the Second World War, a box containing Torah scrolls, candlesticks and religious objects was handed in to the police. It is not known who secretly took the objects to safety.” Wikipedia

The film shows a connection to the USA that could solve the mystery.