During the six difficult and bitter years that the Jewish People experienced during the Holocaust, every day was Tisha B’Av; Every day was a day of mourning, destruction and weeping, fasting and sorrow. Every day one could read Eicha (Book of Lamentations). The comforting prophecy at the end of the Book: “Return us to You, G-d, and we will return. Renew our days as of old” gave the Jews hope to survive the horrors. Here are testimonies, documents, and photos that tell the story of how the Jewish People commemorated the Tisha B’Av fast day in the Jewish Dia [Read more]
Megillat HaShoah (Hebrew) by Rabbi Moshe Prager 5699-5746 (1909-1985).
Bella Porius – Tisha B’Av in the Camp (Senec, Czechoslovakia)
Going up to Jerusalem 5705-5706 (1945-1946)
Going up to Jerusalem 5705-5706 (1945-1946)
Luba Teitelbaum – Tisha B’Av in the Extermination Camp (Hungary)
Edith Rothschild – Prayers in Auschwitz (Hungary)
