This past week, in close proximity to the end of the 13th cycle of the Daf Yomi daily learning of the Talmud, oral Jewish law, a handwritten page was unveiled from Tractate Berachot used by Daf Yomi learners in the Displaced Persons camps in Italy immediately after the Holocaust.
At the bottom of the Gemara page is written, "Self-made Gemara page of people of the camps studying the daily page Santa Cesarea, Italy 5706 [1945-46 -ed.]." Sources in the Jewish world exposed to the discovery told Arutz Sheva Sunday evening, "You see how many Jews devoted their lives to studies of the Gemara in any situation and at all costs, even after the terrible suffering of the terrible Holocaust and still bothered to write the Gemara by hand. It is not for nothing that we merit hundreds of thousands are studying the daily page today in all corners of the world and oral teachings are spreading everywhere in the world."