{"id":92417,"date":"2017-11-28T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:56:49","slug":"passover-in-berlin-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/passover-in-berlin-1946\/","title":{"rendered":"Passover in Berlin, 1946"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes context makes all the difference. These photographs show Passover at home and at the synagogue– in Berlin, 1946. <\/div>\n
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(note: the captions incorrectly say 1945; this of course can’t be accurate because the war hadn’t ended yet. Fortunately one of the photographs below includes a list of dates, confirming 1946). <\/div>\n
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Passover seder at home. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A man named Gunther Ruschin holds a book of questions and answers about the Exodus. His concentration camp tattoo is visible on his arm. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Tasting of bitter herbs during the Passover seder. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A girl asks her elders ritual questions during the Passover seder. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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The exterior of a Berlin synagogue. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A woman and her child read the blackboard outside the synagogue. (includes the string of dates, April 1946). Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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People praying at the synagogue during Passover. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Men of the congregation, all Holocaust survivors. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Torah scrolls being read to the congregation. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Three leading representatives of the Berlin Jewish community. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Chief Cantor Ruschin holding Torah scrolls to the congregation. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Gunter Ruschin– partially seen above holding a book– at the synagogue. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Sometimes context makes all the difference. These photographs show Passover at home and at the synagogue– in Berlin, 1946.  (note: the captions incorrectly say 1945; this of course can’t be accurate because the war hadn’t ended yet. Fortunately one of the photographs below includes a list of dates, confirming 1946).  Passover seder at home. Source […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}