The celebration of Purim in the DP camps as part of the festival Les Traversées du Marais

Purim parade at the DPs camp in Landsberg, Germany, ca 1946. © Zvi Kadushen (Beth Hatefutsoth Photo Archive, Zvi Kadushin Collection).

Purim, this festival of disguise, excess and relief is also celebrated after the war by the survivors in the camps for displaced persons. They say, sing, play the world, reconnecting with Yiddish theater and continuing the interrupted but not extinguished speech.

Presentation of archives and filmed images, notably extracted from the film by Fredersdorf and Goldstein Lang ist der Weg (1947/1948).