TO: oomis1105 and others…
Regarding your story about paintings on pieces of destroyed Sifrei Torah.
If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes, I probably would doubt the veracity of this story, but I DID see it with my own eyes…
Many years ago the Rav of the shul where I davened at that time, got up to give his weekly drasha on the parsha. He began talking about the Holocaust and held up a painting for us to see (it was approximately 16 inches by 18 inches as I recall it). It was a portrait of a nazi officer that he’d had painted of himself. Then the Rav turned it over – it was painted on the back of Torah klaf. Very upsetting and horrifying of course, but what was the connection to that week’s parsha? – It was painted on the back of the parsha of Amalek!