עברית
Before the War: Rare Passover Photos from Across Europe
Yad Vashem’s exhibit showcases rarely seen images of how Jewish communities across Europe prepared for and celebrated Passover on the eve of World War II.
A Passover greeting card from Luboml, Poland, 1919
Preparing matzah for distribution to the needy in Vienna, Austria, 1921
Baking matzah in the Igel family home in Solotvina, Czechoslovakia, 1935 (photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Galicia and Bukovina)
Jewish soldiers and members of the Staszów, Poland, community at a community-organized Seder night before the war
Photos from the Herzog factory in Berlin, Germany, 1936
Baking matzah, before the war
A Passover Seder in Vilna, then part of Poland, April 1940
A Seder night for Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army, Chojnice (Chojnice), Poland, 1939
A family photo around the Seder table in Riga, Latvia, before the war (the Chait family)
The Buchhalter family (the family of the photo's contributor) during the Passover Seder in Warsaw, Poland, 1933
The Gutstein and Fleisher families. Photographed between 1933–1938
The photos are from Yad Vashem's exhibit "V'higadeta L'vincha".
Over the coming week, we will publish a collection of photos of Passover celebrated during the war years, and after.
