75 years ago Holocaust survivors celebrated Sukkot on their own terms
For the first time since their liberation, the survivors of the Shoah sat down together to reflect on their only recently acquired freedom from their nightmarish bondage.
Jewish men gather in a communal sukkah in the Amberg displaced person's camp in Amberg, Germany, October 1947(photo credit: US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM/COURTESY OF ABRAHAM MALACH/JTA)ByMENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT/JTA