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In the ruins of the Ghetto of Warsaw, among heaps of charred rubbish, there was found, packed tightly into a small bottle, the following testament, written during the ghetto’s last hours by a Jew…
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Zvi Kolitz
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1946
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Presess Rumkowski plunged into the sea of activities and duties like a brave captain who knows his destination, sure that no blizzard, no stormy chaos will cause the ship entrusted into his hands by…
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Chava Rosenfarb
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1972
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The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1999
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The Book of the Ghetto Wars is intended to bring together a selection of the materials in our possession—testimony, journals and notes, documents, studies, poems, and stories—that were created during…
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Antek Zuckerman, Moshe Basok
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1954
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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…
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Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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“Your teeth are bars of bone. Behind them, in a crystal cell, your shackled words. Remember the advice of an elder: the guilty, those that dropped poison pearls into your goblet—let them go free. In…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1956
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The German occupation with its huge system of ghettos, concentration camps, death camps, and more cannot be represented in a normal human tongue. No depictions, documents, and images can…
Contributor:
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1947
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Nathan Rapoport
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Warsaw, Republic of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1948
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A group of people living together under extreme coercive conditions without the conscious intent of forming a community of common fate created forms that were only possible on the basis of the ghetto…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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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…
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Emanuel Ringelblum
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943