The menorah that faced the Nazis

In 1932 Rabbi Dr Akiva Posner, leader of the Jews of Kiel, Germany, lit his menorah in the window of his house overlooking the Nazi Party’s local HQ. Rabbi Posner’s great-grandson, also named Akiva, now lights the menorah in Israel next to an amazing 1932 photo.

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/holocaust/from-nazi-germany-to-beit-shemesh-a-family-menorah-continues-to-glow/2015/12/10/

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