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In the winter of 1945-1946, Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps around Munich created an extraordinary illustrated haggadah in preparation for the first Passover after liberation. For Five decades the original was all but forgotten, Now The Jewish Publication Society is proud to issue this facsimile edition, previously translated into English and published by the American Jewish Historical Society only as a limited edition.

This is a haggadah written for and truly dedicated to the She'erith Hapletah, the Saved Remnant, "the few who escaped." Interwoven with the traditional Passover liturgy are two stories: that of the deliverance from Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Holocaust story of those Jews who survived Hitler. Bold illustrations vividly associate the Exodus with the liberation from Nazi horror.

The heart of the work was not created by a group or organization but by one dedicated man, Lithuanian teacher and writer Yosef Dov Sheinson, who not only wrote the haggadah but also designed and decorated the pages and selected the powerful woodcuts crafted by another survivor, artist Mikls Adler. In his fascinating introduction editor Saul Touster, Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Brandeis University, provides not only the history behind this haggadah but also an incisive commentary that reveals the startling emotional depth the words and illustrations possess.