Haggadah 5705. A. de Jong and L. van Amerongen-Assçher (eds).

(HAGADAH).

Drukkerij Hermes

Eindhoven

1945

Hebrew and Dutch on facing pages. Printed from left to right. The beginning Hebrew text of the Kiddush (p. 7), as well as the concluding Hebrew of Adir Hu and Le-Shanah ha-Ba’ah bi-Yerushalayim (p.20) have been improvised in a rudimentary Hebrew hand.

Yudlov 3944; Yaari 2312.

This Hagadah was issued by the Joodsche Coördinatie Commissie voor het bevrijde Nederlandsche gebied (“Jewish Coordinating Commission for the Liberated Netherlands Governmment”) in the southern, liberated part of the country, while the north was still occupied by the Germans. In their foreword the editors write that due to the annihilation of the Jews by the Germans, Hebrew books have become totally unavailable (p. 4).