The first Passover Seder in occupied Germany: a memoir.

If Purim is past, can Passover be far behind? There's a Jewish tradition that basically says, "Thirty days before the Festival we begin to prepare for the Festival." However, the U.S. Army, being more "orthodox," began as much as sixty days before the Festival.

I became the Jewish chaplain of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division in November of 1945, assigned to Headquarters Company, and stationed in a small village, Bad Wildungen, Germany. World War II had ended five months earlier, and there were, as yet, no Displaced Persons Camps in this area. Holocaust survivors who came