Passover Eve 5706: Eighty years since the Gathering of Survivors in Bergen-Belsen, on the Anniversary of the Liberation.

Photos from the painful event, courtesy of the Holocaust survivors’ newspaper, “Undzer Shtimeh” (Our Time), which covered the gathering and published the speeches that were given at it.

80 years: 5706-5786 (1946-2026)

The memorial

Rabbis leading the march

The crowd

Rabbi Olevsky, the head of the beit din (rabbinical court) of Celle, gives a eulogy

Rabbi Yoel Halperin, the rabbi of postwar Bergen-Belsen, recites Kaddish (memorial prayer)

The orphans