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It was Shabbat morning. I was still lying in bed. My mother was already up and awake, wearing her clean white headdress. The other bed opposite mine, where my mother would sleep, was already made…
Contributor:
I. M. Veisenberg
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Pantel the wagon driver stretches out under the covers and sits up, yawning. The house is dark but a faint light is just beginning to penetrate through the peepholes in the shutter.
“It’s…
Contributor:
Ojzer Warszawski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Some sort of strange, humid day. . . . Some sort of day with a ragged sun and low, dark clouds, like threads of smoke, already happened once before in the past: in distant years long ago, when our…
Contributor:
Efraim Kaganovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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For four hours I sat engrossed while old Gershon Falk told his story, feeling all the while as though I were listening to a fantastic saga—as though I were in the presence of one from another time…
Contributor:
Sh. An-ski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
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Peretz Markish
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1928
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For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility…
Contributor:
Yisroel Rabon
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic
(Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1928
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
Contributor:
Shimon Huberband
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Mordecai walked home from the village on the path that bordered the forest. All the talk of the elders in the village chief’s house had intoxicated him more than the strongest whiskey. Under his…
Contributor:
Rokhl Korn
Places:
Przemysl, Second Polish Republic
(Przemysl, Poland)
Date:
1936
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Meanwhile Reb Zalman, all undeterred, was arranging a match for Deborah, and one evening he arrived with a brand new proposal, one that was—in these hard modern times—almost too good to…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1936
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
Contributor:
Yoysef Smolazh
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1937