Chanukah

The holiday of Chanuka in the Jewish tradition symbolizes hope, light at the end of the tunnel, a miraculous victory of a pure spirit over a mighty military force and over material wealth. Even during the Holocaust, in the darkest days, when it seemed that the end of the Jewish people was near, even in the displaced persons camps, in Siberia and in the ghettos - the Jews continued to light menorahs and hope for miracles, redemption, and rebirth.  ...[Read more]
Natan Tzvi Baron – Chanuka Candles on the Train to Uzbekistan (Taurage, Lithuania)
The First Chanuka Candle

Chaim Binyamini – Chanuka in Bergen-Belsen (Budapest, Hungary)
Jewish Girls on Chanuka in a Labour Camp

Yitzchak Cohen – Chanuka in Auschwitz (Salonika, Greece)
"Then I Shall Complete with a Song of Hymn..."

Fela Eizowitzki – Chanuka in the Children’s Foundation (Poland – Belgium)
“Shehechiyanu”

The Light of Chanuka in the Forests of the Partisans

Rachel Panet – Chanuka in a Forced Labour Camp in Hungary (Mako, Hungary)
Yehoshua Eibeshitz – Chanuka in the Schwaningen Camp (Wielun, Poland)
A Portion of Bread for Chanuka Candles

Rachel Fogel – Chanuka with My Mother in Auschwitz (Romania)
The First Chanuka Light in Bergen-Belsen

Esther Dawidowicz – A Chanuka Candle in Bergen-Belsen (Hungary)
Yisrael Isaac Kuzik – Chanuka with the Imrei Emet in Gur (Poland)
A Chanuka Candle in Schwaningen

Moshe Kugler – Chanuka in the Domonkos Children’s Home (Sopron, Hungary)
One Candle of Hope

Bracha Sternberg – A Chanuka Candle in Frozen Siberia (Hrubieszow, Poland)
For the Light of Chanuka Candles

Yaakov Kopel Reinitz – A Chanuka Candle without a Blessing (Budapest, Hungary)
Chanuka in the Warsaw Ghetto

Margalit Birenbaum and Gisele Fonfeder – A Chanuka Candle in Ravensbruck (Holland)
To Celebrate even if It Upsets Them…

Chava Frankel – Chanuka (Trzebinia, Poland)
Chanuka in Auschwitz

Rabbi Sinai Adler – Chanuka in Auschwitz (Prague, Czechoslovakia)