Chanukah - Before, During, and After the Holocaust
The photos presented here, which can be found in Yad Vashem's Photo Archives, represent the some of the ways that Chanukah was observed throughout Europe prior to the Holocaust, during the Holocaust years, and in the displaced persons camps and children’s homes following the war.
Before the War
Pictured here is a second and third grade class in Riga, Latvia at a Chanukah celebration in 1932
Picture here is a Chanukah play being performed in a school in Berlin, Germany in 1935
Pictured here is the Chanukah menorah being lit in a synagogue in Frankfurt, Germany in 1936
During the War
Pictured here is a Chanukah menorah that was made in a forced labor camp in Gogolin, Upper Silesia in Chanuka 1941
Pictured here is a group picture from a Chanukkah celebration in the Lodz Ghetto, Poland in 1943
Pictured here is a candle lighting ceremony for Chanukah that took place in the Westerbork transit camp in December, 1943
After the War
Pictured here is a Chanukah celebration being held for children who survived the Holocaust in Saloniki Greece
Pictured here is a Chanukah celebration for children in a displaced person’s camp in Leipheim, Germany
Pictured here are people attending the first Chanukah celebration to take place in Furstenfeld-Bruck, Germany after liberation in 1945