- Brief Narrative
- Small poster announcing a prayer assembly in memory of victims of the Holocaust at the Churvat Yehuda Ha-Chasid synagogue in Jerusalem on December 21, 1943. It includes a commemorative prayer for a fast day to be held on Wednesday, the 24th of Kislev [December 21, 1943], the day of Hanukkah. Among the attendees was the Imrei Emet of Gur, Avraham Mordechai Alter. The prayer is based upon an adaptation of a traditional prayer chanted for the dead at funerals, El Male Rahamim, adapted to honor "the souls of many hundreds of thousands of Israel, men, women, boys and girls who were murdered and slaughtered..." in German controlled and occupied countries in Europe.
- Artwork Title
- Memorial Prayer for the Great Day of Fasting
- Date
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commemoration:
1943 December 21
- Geography
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issue:
Jerusalem (Palestine) (historic);
Jerusalem
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
- Markings
- front, title, top, black ink : Hebrew text [A Memorial Prayer for the Great Day of Fasting]
front, top, center, black ink : Hebrew text [Wednesday 24 of Kislev 1943 , December 3, 1943]]
front, top, black ink : Hebrew text [God full of mercy judge of widows and Father of orphans be not silent and restrained at the sight of the blood of Israel which is being spilled like water. Grant perfect peace in Your sheltering Presence among the holy and the pure who shine with the splendor of the firmament to the souls of many hundreds of thousands of Israel, men, women, boys and girls who were murdered and slaughtered and burned and drowned and strangled and were buried alive in the following states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, the conquered Russia, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Holland, Belgium, Norway, France and the rest of the conquered countries.]
front, bottom, black ink : Hebrew text [They were all holy and pure and among them there were great men of learning and righteous people, Cedars of Lebanon, great scholars of the Torah / May they rest in Eden. Therefore, Master of Mercy, may their souls be bound in the bond of life. The Lord is their portion and may He remember them and may their innocence stand for all of us and for all of Israel. Land do not cover their blood and may there not be a place for their outcry. Thanks to them the spread out people of Israel will return to the land of the living and the holy ones for eternal remembrance in front of the Holy One their righteousness will allow them to come in peace and rest upon their place of rest and let us say Amen.]
