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Saturday is the worst of the week. Whenever I touch anything on this day, straightway there comes a voice: Don’t do that, today it’s a sin.
“Sin?” I ask.
Says Mother: “Sin is that for which the Good…
Contributor:
Károly Pap
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1937
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I lived, but as for living I was shiftless in my life,
knew always I’d be buried here when all was done,
that year layers itself upon year, clod on clod, stone on stone,
that in the chill and wormy…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1937
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At the Realschule fathers and mothers were lined up in single file in the director’s room. Parents who took the occasion very seriously appeared in couples with their young hopefuls. The director…
Contributor:
Lajos Hatvany
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1927
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One of the comrades on sick call had a chat with an army guard. This is the account he gave:
“How stupid can you get, I ask you, what are the limits of human stupidity! This…
Contributor:
Erno Szép
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1945
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Lajos Kelemen was an upright and honest man throughout his life. He arrived in this world in June, thereby sparing his mother the ever-present concern whether or not he would catch a cold while being…
Contributor:
Erno Ballagi, Jeno Nádor
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1921
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Just walk on, condemned to die!
in woods where winds and catscreams wail,
sentence in darkened lines
shall fall upon the pines;
hunchbacked with fear the road turns pale.
Just shrivel up, you…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1936
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The pride of the Germans was Kinderlyn. He was taller even than Leona Lakner, and he carried a very small head on a huge body. He was a real actor; he was said to be a member of the Dresden…
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Rodion Markovits
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1928
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This is what he must have looked like,
Christ in the autumn, like me with my
twenty-two summers: still beardless,
blond, and the girls couldn’t help it,
dreamed of him night after night!
Translated…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
Places:
Szeged, Kingdom of Hungary
(Szeged, Hungary)
Date:
1930
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The dreadful angel in me is invisible
today, his screeching almost still.
You startle at its whisper. Is it
someone come to pay a visit
or a grasshopper tapping at the sill?
It’s he. Oh, he is…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1943
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Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart’s secret places.
Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating.
Blessed is the…
Contributor:
Hanna Szenes
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1944