Passover

The holiday of Passover occupies a place of honor in the Jewish calendar, being the holiday that symbolizes our exit from slavery to redemption and our becoming a nation. Even during the Holocaust, Jews did not give up observing the mitzvah of Passover, and this raised difficult and heavy questions: Is it possible to avoid eating chametz (leaven) for a week, when all the food one had was a slice of moldy bread? How can one drink four glasses of wine when even water is a precious commodity? And i...[Read more]
Guiding Kit – Freedom within Slavery
Hard Labour in the Melk Concentration Camp

Self-Sacrifice in the Valley of Death - Baking Matzah in the Bergen-Belsen Camp

Ephraim Manela – Matzah for Passover in the Ghetto (Sosnowiec, Poland)
Next Year in Jerusalem - In Bergen-Belsen

Yosef Ansbacher – Beets for the Four Cups of Wine (Brussels, Belgium)
Selling My Chametz

Rabbi David Brudman – “Ma Nishtana” (The Four Questions) in Theresienstadt (The Hague, Holland)
Avraham Abba Factor – The Hagadda and the Book of Esther (Enschede, Holland)
Yehudit Rubinfeld – Leaves with a Special Taste/Passover in the Camp (Lutynia, Hungary)
What I Learned at My Father's Home

Baking Matza and the Seder Night in a Concentration Camp

Dov Osdorf and Yehuda Van Dyke – Passover in Hiding (Rotterdam, Holland)
Abba Halperin – Words of Encouragement from the Klausenberger Rebbe (Lithuania – Israel)
Shlomo Abrams and Yona Emanuel – Passover in the Bergen-Belsen Camp (Holland)
Ha Lachma Anya (This is the Bread of our Afflication) in Auschwitz

Rabbi Sinai Adler – Passover in the Mauthausen Camp (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
Carmella Wertzel – The Last Passover (Szilagysomlyo, Transylvania)
Chad Gadya in the Middle of Auschwitz

Yitzchak Meir Shpernowitz – Passover Seder in the Siberian Steppe (Ostrow Ozowiec, Poland)
Seder Night in Bergen-Belsen

Shlomo Wakstok – Passover in Siberia (Kalisz, Poland)
Yosef Balsam – Passover in Siberia (Lancut, Poland)
Dr. Leiben's Sacrifice for Passover

The Healing Matza of the Klausenberger Rebbe

Shlomo Cohen – Passover in the Russian Prison (Bielic, Galicia)
Chaim Binyamini – Baking Matzah in Bergen-Belsen (Budapest, Hungary)
Nachman Bistritz – Passover (Krasna – The Hungarian-Romanian Border)
Akiva Goldshtof's Matzas of Faith

Passover in the Forest

Eliyahu Reisman – The Miracle of Rescue on the Seder Night (Tiszakorod, Hungary)
Passover 5704 (1944) in Bergen-Belsen

Yosef Yeshayahu Bonder – Passover in Hiding (Bardejov, Czechoslovakia)