A light of defiance: Holocaust survivor’s grandson lights hanukkia used in pre-war Germany
During Hanukka 1932, the family took a now-famous photograph of the hanukkia positioned on a window ledge, beyond which the Nazi flag could be seen
Yehuda Mansbach, grandson of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Akiva Posner, lights his grandfather’s hanukkia at Yad Vashem on Tuesday. Inset: Posner’s hanukkia sits in the window against a backdrop of 1932 pre-Nazi Germany(photo credit: YITZHAK HARARI)ByJEREMY SHARON