Don Gaetano Tantalo of Tagliacozzo Alto, Italy, not only hid seven members of the Orvieto and Pacifici families, but also helped them to perform Jewish rituals

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These are his calculations to determine the date of #Passover

Are you visiting #Israel this #Passover ?

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#WorldBookDay
The #Passover #Haggadah Rescued From a Pile of Ashes

Rabbi Spiegel found this Haggadah at the edge of a smouldering pile of books in Berlin in 1934

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#WorldBookDay
The Nazis burnt thousands of anti-Nazi, Jewish-authored, and 'degenerate' books

This book-burning exhibit at Yad Vashem symbolizes Hitler's rise to power & the intensity of the Nazi revolution; the books are all copies of those that were burnt by the Nazis

Baking #matzah in hiding in the Lodz ghetto, 1943

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'Avadim Hayinu: We were slaves in Egypt once & now in Gabersdorf again.
Ma Nishtana: Why is this night different from all other nights? Because in our misery, as Jews we are stronger'

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#ShoahStory
Tomorrow, Jews around the world will sit down for the #Passover Seder.

Today, listen to survivor testimonies of 'The Last Passover in the Warsaw Ghetto' as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began

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The Jewish holiday of Passover starts tomorrow night

Explore photographs marking #Passover Before, During and After the #Holocaust in our online exhibition

'And you Shall Tell Your Children'
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Jews at a #Passover #Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto
A man can be seen breaking a matzah

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#SaturdayNightArt
This handwritten 1941 #Passover Haggadah from the Gurs camp opens with a #watercolor by Fritz Schleifer

It depicts Rabbi Ansbacher delivering a sermon to a large number of people during the #Yizkor prayer on the last day of Passover 1941
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#PhotoFriday
One of the traditions associated with #Passover is eating unleavened bread known as #Matzah

Even during the Holocaust, in hiding, in the ghettos or in the places to which they had fled, some Jews found ways to bake matzot that could be eaten in honor of the holiday

#PhotoFriday
These post-war photographs of Holocaust #survivors celebrating #Passover in DP camps and children's homes are poignant testimonials to Jewish resilience and continuity

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Pres. יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog presented a volume of Talmud that survived the Holocaust to @YadVashem.
▸The Israeli leader's grandfather received the Pesachim Tractate after it was found in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich in 1945.

Report by etgar lefkovits

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As Holocaust Remembrance Day draws near, the urgency to safeguard the memories of those who survived one of humanity's darkest chapters grows more palpable. Help Yad Vashem keep their memories alive.

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Will you be visiting #Israel this #Passover ?

Discover Yad Vashem's monuments, sculptures, and memorials across landscaped grounds throughout the Mount of Remembrance

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