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One day, during World War Two, a military chaplain arrived at our army camp in the Australian outback, to celebrate the Feast of Hanukkah with us and tell us about the wars of the Maccabees. Apart…
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Yossl Birstein
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1986
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On the white garments of my great-grandfather
the cross of the middle ages flames anew.
My great-grandfather sits at the seder,
holding a staff from a wild almond tree
to rouse the forefathers.
Not…
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Chaim Grade
Places:
Vilna, Republic of Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1936
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Things have changed since we last met. Some of your friends have already reached their homeland; others are soon to follow. Once opened, the gates will not shut again. Nothing will ever be the same as…
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Elie Wiesel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1977
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Today I returned from my trip to Tunis, and I will start to record what I witnessed, heard, and felt. On Thursday, 15 Iyyar (May 20, 1943), I left Tripoli. [ . . . ]
On that day…
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Ephraim E. Urbach
Places:
Tripoli, British Military Administration of Libya (Tripoli, Libya)
Date:
1943
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It is not enough to see a statue. A statue has to be sensed with the fingertips. In our imagination we touch the statue, caress it, examine its rounded and hollow surfaces, and by doing so our sense…
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Ḥaim Gamzu
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1957
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T.J.:Why don’t you get the lead out of your can and do something for once?
Coney [to Finch]:You finish your map.
Finch:It’s finished, Coney.
Coney:Well, let T. J. Rockefeller do something besides…
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Arthur Laurents
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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On the first day they sailed, the Pechofs saw the film called Argentina, the Promised Land. The screen had been divided into four parts like a coat of arms, and they saw wheat fields, cows in profile…
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Mario Szichman
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1971
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The war broke out in its full might; it was a matter of life and death. The nation was expending all of its energies. The wondrous accomplishments of Israel’s heroes had been for naught. Jerusalem was…
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Rachel Yanait
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1909
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(Written at the end of 1939 in Havana—with thoughts about Poland)
Our poor nest eternally atremble
in the wind.
What will happen now, in bloody storm,
mayn kind?
Now, in bloody storm . . . ?
The…
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Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Havana, Republic of Cuba (Havana, Cuba)
Date:
1939
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I am beginning to get used to the years of war. We seem to struggle through the same journey from first of January to first of January, in a nightmare that is itself beginning…
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Mihail Sebastian
Places:
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1943