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Contributor:
Sylvia Plachy
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Dachau, West Germany
(Dachau, Germany)
Date:
1985
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German Jewry proved itself to be one of the most deeply characteristic and in every important respect fundamental representatives of the West, proving its mettle as partner in its two-thousand-year…
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Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
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Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Zurich, Switzerland)
Date:
1957
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But who emptied your shoes of sand
When you had to get up, to die?
The sand which Israel gathered,
Its nomad sand?
Burning Sinai sand,
Mingled with throats of nightingales,
Mingled with wings of…
Contributor:
Nelly Sachs
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1947
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19: 26
O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel’s body drifted as smoke
Th…
Contributor:
Nelly Sachs
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1947
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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening
we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night
we drink and we drink
we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped
A man lives in…
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Paul Celan
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1952
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When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior…
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Henryk M. Broder
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(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1979
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I went to see to my sister in Berlin.
She wants me to consider moving in.
Her husband’s passed away now, a schlemiel,
He left her too much money in his will.
Her residence is filled with precious…
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Georg Kreisler
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1963
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Not seldom, when in conversation my partner draws me into a plural—that is, as soon as he includes my person in whatever connection and says to me: “We Jews . . .”—I feel a not exactly tormenting, but…
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Jean Améry
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1966
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Ruschuk, on the lower Danube, where I came into the world, was a marvelous city for a child, and if I say that Ruschuk is in Bulgaria, then I am giving an inadequate picture of it. For…
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Elias Canetti
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Zurich, Switzerland)
Date:
1977