This small book, often called “The Survivor’s Haggadah,” is not a Haggadah proper. Rather, it is a Passover service created for a gathering of Jewish U.S. servicemen and survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Composed and designed by Yosef Sheinson, a survivor of Dachau, it includes elements of the traditional Passover Haggadah, mostly modified, but it also includes new poems and readings (some in Yiddish), along with haunting prints by Miklos Adler. Both the text and the artwork of the book echo the questions that those gathering in Munich must have had, connecting the recent horror with themes of past oppression of Jews. No participant could have been unmoved ty the service. 

This page answers the Haggadah’s question, “why do we eat Maror [bitter herbs] on Passover?”, in a new way: to remind us of the bitterness of our exiles, which will be overcome only with the creation of a new Jewish state. This is one of many statements supporting the Zionist dream in this work.