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Passover in a Time of War: Rare Photos From the Ghettos, Shelters, and Camps
Remembering Passover is a core Jewish value, and that spirit inspired Yad Vashem to open an exhibition of photos and testimonies from Passover celebrations across Europe. This collection focuses on rare images from World War II—Seders in ghettos, makeshift shelters, hospitals, and internment camps—capturing how Jews kept the holiday against all odds.
Baking matzah in Makó, on the eve of Passover, 5704 (1944) (Pictured: the Halpert children and their neighbors)
Passover Seder for Allied soldiers in a department store in Belgium, March 25, 1945
Distribution of matzah by the YSS organization in Warsaw during Passover, 1940
Passover Seder held by Jewish soldiers in the Allied armies
Passover Seder in a hospital in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1941
Distribution of matzah in the Łódź Ghetto, Poland, 1941
Passover Seder at the refugee shelter at 7 Dzielna Street in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
Passover at the Pithiviers internment camp, France, 1942. The photo was provided by the son of Wolf Slocki, who was deported from Pithiviers to Auschwitz on June 25, 1942
Baking matzah in secret in the Łódź Ghetto, Poland, 1943
Passover at the Beaune-la-Rolande camp, France. The photo was provided by the son of David Pastel, who was deported to Auschwitz on June 28, 1942
Passover Seder held by Jewish soldiers in the Allied armies
Passover Seder in the shelter opened by the Refugee Aid Committee at 6 Leszno Street in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
Soviet Union, 1943 — Jews who fled from Poland to Russia bake matzah for Passover
Passover Seder at the refugee shelter at 7 Dzielna Street in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
A man recites a blessing over a cup of wine at a Passover Seder, in the shelter opened by the Refugee Aid Committee at 6 Leszno Street in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
The photos are from Yad Vashem's exhibition \"Vehigadeta Levincha\".
Later this week, with Hashem's help, we will publish the third and final set of photos — images from Passover celebrated immediately after the war
