One month before Hitler rose to power, a Jewish family living in Germany defiantly displayed a Hanukkah menorah in their window across from a Nazi flag.
Rachel Posner took this photo of a Hanukkah menorah with a Nazi flag in the background. Rachel wrote on the back of the photo:
Chanukah 5692 (1932) “Death to Judah” So the flag says “Judah will live forever” So the light answers.
Her husband, Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner was the last Rabbi of the community of Kiel Germany until after the war. The Posner family left Germany for Israel in 1933.
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