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I cannot express my thanks to the German Book Trade for the honor conferred on me without at the same time setting forth the sense in which I have accepted it, just as I earlier accepted the Hanseatic…
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Martin Buber
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1953
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If it hadn’t been for Hitler there would be no Israel. If there had been no Holocaust there would be no Jewish State today. How often this line of reasoning is used! Even the German-British writer…
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Michael Wolffsohn
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1988
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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 want to tell you about my brother’s ghost.
I had so looked forward to seeing him again: my Schorschi, my Czech brother, who had sent us a few postcards from Theresienstadt. But he wasn’t there…
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Ruth Klüger
Places:
Munich, Germany
(Irvine, United States of America)
Date:
1992
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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
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1999
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Today, the Sherit Hapleita has an ideology of its own—this despite the fact that in its outlook on life, in its politics, and its culture, the group is no more unified and no less divided than other…
Contributor:
Samuel Gringauz
Places:
New York City, Allied-occupied Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1947
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Sylvia Plachy
Places:
Dachau, West Germany
(Dachau, Germany)
Date:
1985
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Aron maintained confident hope in one child. To this day, it remains uncertain whether or not this hope was fulfilled, but you can’t talk to him about it.
The transport that led from the Bohemian…
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Jurek Becker
Places:
East Berlin, East Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1976
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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
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1949
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Without the appropriate distance, writing history is particularly difficult and thorny in this case. And there is an additional element of complexity. Forced into the thankless role of the prosecutor…
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Josef Wulf, Léon Poliakov
Places:
Berlin, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1955