Birkath HaMazon [Grace After Meals]. Includes Keri'ath Shema al HaMitah [prayers before retiring to sleep] and Hazkarath Neshamoth [memorial prayers for deceased]

(HOLOCAUST)

Defus Yafah, circa

Foehrenwald (D.P Camp, Germany)

1946

A scarce little booklet. Following the night-time Keria’th Shema, is a page of Mishnah, above wihich is a most poignant hand-written note in Yiddish, “Before going to sleep, learn this page of Mishnayoth (in memory) of your parents. No doubt intended for those surviving children whose parents were killed and were thus left alone at the end of the war. It is possible that these instructions were penned by Grand Rabbi Yekuthiel Judah Halberstam of Klausenberg, who was active in reviving religious life in the Foehrenwald D.P. Camp