English: Bornplatz Synagogue Torah scrolls. On Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938), the Gestapo searched for Dr. Seligmann Baer Bamberger, a chemistry and physics teacher in Hamburg's Jewish schools. They could not find him because Dr. Bamberger had snuck out with other leaders of the Jewish community to save the Bornplatz Synagogue Torah scrolls, in turn avoiding arrest. In March 1940, the family left for the United States, and Dr. Bamberger's son Joseph recalled, "The most important item in our suitcases was ... one of the Torah scrolls that my father had rescued from the Bornplatz Synagogue on Kristallnacht."