The Gurs Haggadah Passover In
Perdition
Edited by Bella Gutterman and
Naomi Morgenstern
$24.95
The Gurs Haggadah
Passover In Perdition
How
do you live a “normal” life in a
Concentration Camp?
The Gurs Camp (technically called
a “detention” camp) in
southwestern France was the
testing ground for thousands of
Jews attempting to pit their
belief in God and themselves
against the inhumanity of war.
Here, in 1941, the inmates decided
to hold a Seder on Passover, the
Holiday of Freedom, in order to
declare their own freedom from the
terror of oppression.
Replete with photographs, and
featuring a facsimile of the
actual Haggadah recreated from
memory and used in the camp,
The Gurs
Haggadah sheds light on
a little known camp where, despite
the stresses and sub-human
conditions, the people enriched
their own lives by organizing both
religious and cultural activities
while suffering under the yoke of
Nazi brutality.
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Bella Gutterman is the Director of
Publications for Yad Vashem, the
oldest and probably most well
known Holocaust Museum in the
world. Both she and Naomi
Morgenstern have edited this
moving testimonial to those who
did not survive the rigors of Gurs
or the death camps many were
eventually sent to.
