Saturday December 24, 2011 at 13:16

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herrkeuner: Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Dr.Akiva Posner, took this photo from inside the family home on Chanukah 1932. Rabbi Posner was the last Rabbi of the community in Kiel, Germany. The Posner family left Germany in 1933 and arrived in  Mandatory Palestine in 1934. On the back of the photograph, Rachel Posner wrote: “Juda verrecke” die Fahne spricht“Juda lebt ewig”erwidert das Licht” “Death to Judah”So the flag says“Judah will live forever”So the light answers  Both the photograph and the menorah are featured in the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem Credits: Posner Family Estate, courtesy of Shulamit Mansbach, Haifa, Israel This is an amazing photograph. Not the most upbeat for the first night of Hanukkah, but so inspiring that it needed to be shared.

herrkeuner:

Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Dr.Akiva Posner, took this photo from inside the family home on Chanukah 1932. Rabbi Posner was the last Rabbi of the community in Kiel, Germany. The Posner family left Germany in 1933 and arrived in  Mandatory Palestine in 1934.

On the back of the photograph, Rachel Posner wrote: 

“Juda verrecke” 
die Fahne spricht
“Juda lebt ewig”
erwidert das Licht” 

“Death to Judah”
So the flag says
“Judah will live forever”
So the light answers 

Both the photograph and the menorah are featured in the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem 

Credits: Posner Family Estate, courtesy of Shulamit Mansbach, Haifa, Israel

This is an amazing photograph. Not the most upbeat for the first night of Hanukkah, but so inspiring that it needed to be shared.

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