In honour of #Chanukah, this is a THREAD with some of the most powerful Chanukah images (c/- @yadvashem) from 'Before, During and After the Holocaust'.

Starting with this, perhaps most powerful one: Kiel, Germany (1932)

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@yadvashem Lodz, Poland, 1943, in the Ghetto.

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@yadvashem Berlin, Germany, 1930s, a lit Hanukkah candelabrum on

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@yadvashem Berlin, Germany, 1930s, children playing with dreidels.

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@yadvashem Berlin, Germany, 1930s, a boy lighting a Chanukiah.

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@yadvashem Frankfurt, Germany, 1936. A boy lighting Hanukkah candles in a synagogue.

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@yadvashem Saloniki (Greece), Postwar: A Hanukkah party for child survivors.

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@yadvashem Fuerstenfeldbruck (Germany) 1945: Celebrations of the first Hanukkah after liberation, in the DP camp.

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@yadvashem Austria, 1947: Lighting of Hanukkah candles in a DP camp.

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@yadvashem Lodz (Poland) 1948: A Hanukkah celebration with Jewish children hid in an orphanage by non-Jewish families during the war.

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@yadvashem A Chanukiah, standing in front of the Western Wall, Jerusalem, the eternal and undivided capital of the sovereign Jewish nation, #Israel.

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