Photo Credit: Yad Vashem Photo Archives 1922/19
Westerbork, Holland, Lighting the candles on the seventh night of Hanukkah

(JNi.media) In honor of the festival of Hanukkah, Yad Vashem presents a fascinating online exhibition of photos, artifacts and testimonies from the Yad Vashem Collections. The miracle of Hanukkah and the Menorah itself symbolize Jewish resilience and continuity, reflected in the ways this holiday was observed throughout Europe before WWII, in the Holocaust years, and at displaced persons camps and children’s homes following the war. These are the personal accounts of how the Jews of Europe celebrated the Festival of Lights before, during and after one of the darkest chapters in modern history.

Lodz, Poland, 1941, Nachman Zonabend distributing sweets to children at Hanukkah.
Lodz, Poland, Lighting the Hanukkah candles with the Chairman of the Judenrat, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski.
Neu Freimann, Germany, postwar, children in a Hanukkah show.
Cham, Germany, lighting Hanukkah candles in the DP camp, 1945. Yad Vashem Photo Archives 1486/1469
The Hanukkah menorah that Willy Tal received as a gift for his Bar Mitzvah in Amsterdam in 1935.
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