''Death to Judah' so the flag says, 'Judah will live forever,' so the light answers,' Rachel Posner wrote in German on the back of the photograph.
She wrote that Rachel Posner was the wife of rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner, and that their family lived in Kiel, Germany. For Hanukkah in 1932, they lit the menorah and placed it on the windowsill for their neighbors to see and know that the prominent symbol of anti-Semitism across the street would not deter them from practicing their faith and celebrating their culture.
The Posners escaped Germany in 1933 and settled in the Israel, Greenbaum Davis wrote, where their descendants still live today. The menorah in the photo is held at Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial, for most of the year. However, each year during Hanukkah the family takes it back and uses it for the holiday.
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