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Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…
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Isaiah Spiegel
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1946
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…
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Zelig Kalmanovitch
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1942
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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
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1941
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…
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Abraham Lewin
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1941
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
Date:
1946
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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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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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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…
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Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh
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Lodz, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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Dense crowds proceed at dawn
Through Theresienstadt’s still empty streets
Five abreast curving around corners into squares.
The beast checks if anybody has stumbled.
Today God’s chosen people are…
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Else Dormitzer
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Theresienstadt, German-occupied Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)
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1943
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Everything, nearly everything, was taken away from us in the ghettos and concentration camps by the great criminals. They did not spare our treasures, both material and spiritual. Even our…
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Israel Kaplan
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1949
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Trapped in Lithuania by the German invasion of Soviet-controlled territory while visiting her sister in Kaunas (Kovno) in 1941, Esther Lurie was imprisoned in a ghetto along with the rest of the city…
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Esther Lurie
Date:
1942