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A Flicker of Light in the Darkness: How Hanukkah was Celebrated During the Shoah

  • Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center 100 Crescent Beach Road Glen Cove, NY, 11542 United States (map)

Dr. Avi Marcovitz, HMTC’s Director of Education, presented a program about the ways Jews celebrated the festival of Hanukkah before the Holocaust, in the ghettos and concentration camps, and in the displaced persons camps after the war. How were the religious traditions sustained under the most dangerous conditions? Join us to learn more about this topic.

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