With all that's been written about the vast movement of Allied troops to England's South coast in the Spring of 1944, in preparation for the invasion of Normandy, it's easy to forget that the liberation of Europe had already begun, with the Sicily landings of the previous July. So it comes as no surprise that groups of soldiers observed Passover in Italy in 1944. I've found evidence of at least five such Seders.
What seems to have been the largest was mounted by the 5th (U.S.) Army. Here's a write-up, from a wire service story printed in The Sentinel (Chicago) on April 13th:
In London, The Jewish Chronicle took note of it on the following day:
A much fuller account had appeared in The New York Times on April 8th. That article is so long that I decided it was impractical include it here. Here's a link (but there's no transcription and I'm not sure whether non-subscribers will be able to view the page image). Here are some salient details:
There were more than 1,000 people present.
Among them were three nurses and one WAC.
The WAC, Private First Class Frances Smith, sat with her husband, Private Isidore Smith. (You read that correctly: she held the higher rank! There were a great many married couples in the military by this time, and I'm wondering if that wasn't a fairly common situation.)
The chaplain, Major Aaron Paperman (1914-2002), "smilingly and explicitly compressed ten pages of service text into 'thirty seconds flat'." I have trouble imagining such a thing happening today — especially given that he was ultra-Orthodox. Awarded a Bronze Star, he had served a congregation in Plainfield, N.J., before the war.
Meanwhile, pan-Allied troops were making a Seder with only a slightly smaller number of people in attendance, as The Jewish Chronicle reported on April 21st:
Press coverage of that event may have been relatively sparse, but there are photos, with captions indicating that the Seder took place south of Cassino:
From Yad Vashem, here is an image of an American military-issue Hagadah that was used at a Seder at a British base in Bari attended by both American and British troops (many of the latter were from Mandate Palestine):
Finally, click here and here to see the covers of two home-made Hagadot used by members of British transport companies.
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