Why was it important to celebrate pesach in World War 2?

Answer 1

When the Jewish people were led out of Egypt where they have been enslaved they observed a holy day commemorating that event and giving thanks and praise to God for their deliverance. During World War II, the very admission of one being a Jew would ensure their persecution by Germany authorities under the auspices of Adolf Hitler. During the war years they were forced to celebrate in private, but they had the knowledge that God who had delivered them from Egypt would also deliver them from the atrocities of the Germany authorities. Exodus 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you

Exodus 13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.

Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Answer 2

It's always important.

(During WW2, it also served as a form of prayer that the war and the Nazi persecutions and killings would end.)

Pesach (Passover) is important to us since in it we relive the Exodus from Egypt and our birth as a nation, both of which were preparations for receiving the Torah from God.

The highlight of Passover is the Seder meal. This meal is of great importance in Judaism. It is a 3325-year old continuous tradition that began on the night of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exodus chapter 12).

The Seder meal is one of those occasions, like Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, that Jews all over the world, Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike, observe in common. During the Seder, we keep the essential mitzva and customs of handing Jewish traditions down to the next generation, with the traditional Seder foods and the ceremony of reading the Passover Haggadah which retells the events of the Exodus.