Musaf le-Haggadah shel Pesach (Supplement to the Passover Haggadah), Munich: 1946.

19 leaves (8  1/4  x 5 ¾ in.; 210 x 145 mm). Illustrated: seven woodcuts by Miklos Adler (ben Benjamin), further page illustrations and border illustrations by Y.D. Sheinson. Very slight marginal browning. Original paper wrappers emblazoned with prominent red white and blue insignia of the U.S. Third Army, a blue disc with red border, the blue area bearing throughout a white capital letter “A.” A single pencil notation on f. 1v; the word “Moses” in ink on rear wrapper; wrappers lightly soiled.

Yaari 2328; Yudlov 4007.

Most of the texts in this haggadah are the work of Yosef Dov Sheinson - a survivor of the Kovno Ghetto, who augmented the traditional Passover Seder service with words that emanated from the anguished souls of the survivors themselves. There is also an English introduction by Rabbi Abraham Klausner, the military chaplain who conducted the two seders held in Munich’s Deutsches Theater restaurant on April 15 and 16, 1946, and for which the haggadah was specifically created. The haunting woodcuts by Miklos Adler (ben Benjamin) marry the words of the traditional text to images that call forth the unspeakable horrors to which the seder’s participants had so recently been subjected. It is likely that Rabbi Klausner was also responsible for the inclusion of the page preceding the Hebrew opening of the haggadah. Conspicuously set off by the palpable absence of any other text is a stark paraphrase of the most famous words of the haggadah: “We were slaves to Hitler in Germany …”