The Gurs Haggadah: Passover in Perdition
At our seder, my roommate Natasha brought out a book titled "The Gurs Haggadah: Passover in Perdition." Her grandmother was born in the Gurs Detention Camp in southwestern France, which is where she lived her first 5 years of life.
The facsimile in the book shows the incomplete Haggadah that was handwritten by memory by one of the camp's inmates in 1941/5701. That Passover, the Haggadah was distributed among camp inmates who used it to conduct the seder. A rabbi at the camp stood on a platform and recited the Haggadah.
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