Long Islander Eva Kirshenblatt is lighting a very special menorah with her family for the first time this year.

The menorah is something of a “miracle,” according to the mom of two, 47, whose late father David Tenenbaum was the sole survivor of his large Polish Jewish family after the Holocaust. 

For as long as she could remember growing up in Sunnyside, Queens, Kirshenblatt would listen to her father “obsess” over his family’s pre-war menorah — a wedding gift to his parents 103 years ago, with an engraving on the back of the date and family name in Hebrew.

“He talked about this menorah all the time,” she said, noting it was the only childhood object he ever mentioned from growing up in Krasnik, outside Warsaw.

“He lost that menorah, of course, when the war came, along with his parents, brothers, sisters, everyone and everything else.”

But Tenenbaum, a small businessman who often visited Eastern Europe after the war to honor the memory of the Holocaust, was constantly on the hunt for a replica of his beloved family menorah — silver and etched with lions and palm trees — stalking antique shops any time he visited.

“He never stopped looking for another one like it,” she said.

“And then one day, decades after the war, he happened upon something while browsing a flea market in Warsaw,” said Kirshenblatt of a mid-1990s visit, some 50 years after liberation. 

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, there it was.

“It was his menorah – not one that just looked like it, but the genuine article, with his last name engraved in the back,” said the astounded daughter, who added that her father “acted cool” when negotiating a price, which she recalled as very modest at the time.

“Just like him, by some miracle, the menorah had survived,” she said. “How can you not think it’s a miracle? It defies logic.”

Since her father died 10 years ago, in December at 85, Kirshenblatt never lit the menorah with her own family of four, as it required a special kind of oil to kindle. 

Until this year.

“I feel connected to him and that whole family,” she said, noting her father was always haunted by memories of his time in several camps, including Auschwitz, and losing his parents, five brothers and sisters and the rest of his life.

“I think about how he always said over and over, ‘We can never forget’ — he was a broken record,” she recalled. “We’d always say, ‘We know.’ “

She feels even closer to her late father, keeping watch over his family’s precious keepsake. And his plea rings truer than ever this year amid the ongoing war, so it’s her way of bringing some light into the world while feeling “helpless.”

“It makes me think, How do you move on and also not forget? They say, ‘those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.’ “

Kirshenblatt lit it Thursday evening at sundown, the start of Hanukkah, and shared a simple message she thought about when lighting the precious menorah this year: “Remember that miracles can happen.”