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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…
Contributor:
Abraham Lewin
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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A major segment of the Jewish people—the Jewish communities in Western and Central Europe—is today experiencing one of the most difficult moments in all of Jewish history. Although we Jews as a people…
Contributor:
Antek Zuckerman, Eliyohu Gutkowski
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1940
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…
Contributor:
Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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The journal is my life, my companion and my confidant. Without it I would be lost. In it I pour out all my heart’s feelings, until I feel somewhat relieved. When I am angry and…
Contributor:
Chaim A. Kaplan
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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An elegy to the Jews deported from the Warsaw ghetto from a Jew hiding on the “Aryan” side of the city.
Contributor:
Rachel Auerbach
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1943
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I am in hiding in a loft over a stable, in a village, with good people. The risk of death hovers over me, as it does over all Jews these days, and the slightest lapse of vigilance on my…
Contributor:
Baruch Milch
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Poland)
Date:
1943
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(Short Poems in Prose)
Contributor:
Yosef Kirman
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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And now Blimele, dear child,
Stop—stop playing now.
No time for that.
We can be called at any minute
To leave our poor home
—A lonely boat on an island of sand—
And be hurled into the midst
Of a…
Contributor:
Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh
Places:
Lodz, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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Everyone appreciated the importance of the work that was being done. They understood how important it was for future generations that a record remain of the tragedy of Polish Jewry. Some realized that…
Contributor:
Emanuel Ringelblum
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
Contributor:
Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941