Showing Results 1 - 10 of 22
Restricted
Text
The pride of the Germans was Kinderlyn. He was taller even than Leona Lakner, and he carried a very small head on a huge body. He was a real actor; he was said to be a member of the Dresden…
Contributor:
Rodion Markovits
Places:
Date:
1928
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I am beginning to get used to the years of war. We seem to struggle through the same journey from first of January to first of January, in a nightmare that is itself beginning…
Contributor:
Mihail Sebastian
Places:
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
(Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1943
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Dearest Kitty,
Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters…
Contributor:
Anne Frank
Places:
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1944
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Why weren’t my family evacuated? Well, at the beginning nobody thought the Germans would get as far as us. Of course, there was the first shock of their sudden attack and their rapid advance, but…
Contributor:
Anatoli Rybakov
Date:
1978
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Hate Hitler? No, I spared him hardly a thought.
But Corporal Irmin, first, and later on
The O.C.(Flying), Wing Commander Briggs,
And the station C.O. Group Captain Ormery—
Now there were men were…
Contributor:
Howard Nemerov
Places:
St. Louis, United States of America
Date:
1987
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the early days of November 1942 (on November 14th) the German army conquered Tunisia with the aim of repelling the Allied Armies (the English and American) in Morocco, Algeria, and western Tunisia…
Contributor:
Isaac ben Jacob Mamo
Places:
Date:
1942–1943
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
One more incident.
A woman shows up at the president’s office and demands the immediate return of her son, who is working in Djelloula, in the Italian sector.
It is impossible to reason…
Contributor:
Paul Ghez
Places:
(Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)
Date:
1943
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The old man Moshe Sefardnick sits in the rear of the place on a camp stool. There is never any work for him to do and indeed he is too old for it, too bewildered. The old man has never been able to…
Contributor:
Norman Mailer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1948
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
During the period between the two wars, the relations between Jews and Muslims progressively altered. One can assign several causes to this unfortunate evolution.
One is the acceleration…
Contributor:
Raymond Bénichou
Places:
Date:
1957
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Buda, Holy Roman Empire
(Buda, Hungary)
Date:
1541