Reaccepting the Torah: Looking back the first Shavuot after the fall of Nazi Germany
For many Holocaust survivors, May 18, 1945 was the first Shavuot they were able to celebrate after years of war.
AMERICAN CHAPLAIN Rabbi Herschel Schacter conducts religious services at the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945(photo credit: US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM/NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION, COLLEGE PARK)
