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Women and Children in the Displaced Persons’ Camp, Feldafing, Germany
Yad Vashem Archives, 6228/76
From the Memoirs of Miriam Raz-Zonshein:
“I couldn’t imagine how a seder [Passover ritual meal – trans.] is conducted with a lot of people. To my surprise, the group seder went ahead with great celebration. There was a lot of singing, and the text was read in Hebrew. We read the hagaddah [book containing the order of the seder – trans.] just like it was at home, and asked the Four Questions. There was a lot of singing performances, as well as group singing. One of the things that especially touched me was a child who got up on one of the tables and sang Rachel’s [Jewish songwriter – trans.] song “Veulay” (“and perhaps”). …”
“He had a voice that went up to the heavens, and when he reached the song “Oh, My Kineret” [name of a sea in Israel], I’m convinced that somewhere up in that starlit sky, even the lord himself was listening to this marvelous singing. The seder went on for many hours. People refused to leave the festive event. Everyone is overcome by great emotion, and even after the official closing of the event, many people sit on the grass and sing.”
(Miriam Raz-Zonshein, Birds in Black and White [Hebrew], Moreshet Yad Vashem, Tel Aviv 2002, pp. 187-188.)
In the photographs, the concern of the parents for their children is apparent. For survivors in the DP camps, the need to feed and care for the basic needs of their children became especially significant. Why?