The Landsberg Displaced Persons camp, 72 kilometers west of Munich, was set up in May 1945 in what had been the German Army base of Saarburg Kaserne. Until September of that year, the DP camp housed both Jewish survivors and non-Jewish political prisoners. The political prisoners thinned out as they were repatriated to their home countries, but the Jews, most of whom had no homes or families to return to, remained at Landsberg. Those who survived and were housed in the DP camp called themselves the She'erit Hapletah (the Saved Remnant). With the assistance of the Jews from Palestine who came to work among them, they began to prepare themselves to make aliya. The cover of this Haggadah published in the Landsberg DP camp in 1946 features the Hebrew words She'erit Hapletah (the Saved Remnant). At top left, an image of the pyramids indicating ancient slavery, is juxtaposed with that of a Concentration Camp at right. At the bottom of the page, the sun rises over a fertile landscape of Israel – a promise of better things to come.

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