Hanukkah in the Lodz Ghetto

The Hanukkah holiday celebrates the victory of the Jews over the Greeks in the 2nd Century BC. The Jewish revolt was led by the brave Maccabee family.

In this photograph from a Hanukkah party in the Lodz Ghetto the men hold a sign that says, in Hebrew, "The Maccabee Festival".

What did the Maccabees symbolize for the Jews in the ghetto?

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Hanukkah party in the Lodz Ghetto, Poland, 1943

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