Israeli Astronaut Ilan Ramon holds a small Torah scroll in space from the Holocaust, as Astronauts Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, and Kalpana Chawla look on. On board the Columbia is a crew of seven – six Americans and Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut and the son of a survivor of Auschwitz. Also aboard, in Ramon’s care, is this Torah, given to him by another Holocaust survivor.

Israeli Astronaut Ilan Ramon holds a small Torah scroll in space from the Holocaust, as Astronauts Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, and Kalpana Chawla look on. On board the Columbia is a crew of seven – six Americans and Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut and the son of a survivor of Auschwitz. Also aboard, in Ramon’s care, is this Torah, given to him by another Holocaust survivor.