Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue

Charles Braun was a Jewish hardware merchant in Jaszbereny, Hungary, a town of 30-35,000 inhabitants southeast of Budapest. After the occupation of Hungary by Germany in March 1944, Charles's wife was deported and Charles was sent to labor camps. After the war ended in May 1945, he returned to Jaszbereny. He learned that his wife had been killed in the gas chambers. Charles lived alone in his old house until 1950-1951, when he emigrated to Switzerland, where died in the sixties.