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A major segment of the Jewish people—the Jewish communities in Western and Central Europe—is today experiencing one of the most difficult moments in all of Jewish history. Although we Jews as a people…
Contributor:
Antek Zuckerman, Eliyohu Gutkowski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1940
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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…
Contributor:
Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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•Workers
•Handicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)
•Trade and industry under Aryan trustees
•Free professions…
Contributor:
Oyneg Shabes Archive
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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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…
Contributor:
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…
Contributor:
Emanuel Ringelblum
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
Contributor:
Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Sunday, November 1 [1942], it was announced in the order of the day that all policemen must assemble at twenty minutes past two in the premises of the former Slobodka Yeshive for a solemn oath-taking…
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Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Over the wall, through holes, and past the guard,
Through the wires, ruins, and fences.
Plucky, hungry, and determined
I sneak through, dart like a cat.
At noon, at night, at dawn,
In snowstorm…
Contributor:
Henryka Łazowertówna
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…
Contributor:
Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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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
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941