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Katerine Vrublevska had thick black curly hair, large, dark velvet eyes, a pale, dreamy, longish face and was fifteen years old.
Her classmates described her skin colour as “café au lait.” She knew…
Contributor:
Lili Berger
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1970
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He felt a gnawing sensation. He knew it was hunger. Nothing in his mouth since morning except for those slops, the slops from the Judenrat kitchen, a watery soup that was almost free, just fifty…
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Bogdan Wojdowski
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Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1971
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You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man,
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust…
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Primo Levi
Places:
Turin, Italy
Date:
1946
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Pinkes Varshe is a memorial erected by the immigrants from Warsaw in Argentina in honor of those generations of Warsaw Jews who, with their lives and struggles, with their heroism and spirituality…
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1955
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What does the Voice of Auschwitz command?
Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…
Contributor:
Emil L. Fackenheim
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
1969
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These nocturnal passenger trains in wartime have their own peculiar sounds. The deportation wagons have a way of screeching, like an eagle or a vulture—whereas this kind of train whines and groans as…
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Béla Zsolt
Places:
Budapest, Hungarian Republic
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1947
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He did not object to their unending walk, on and on until they reached a quiet spot. He did not complain of feeling tired. He did not insist that the blanket should be spread somewhere nearer to other…
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Adolf Rudnicki
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Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1951
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And then—it was after I had returned from Tiberias to Tel Aviv to attend a literary soirée—then the creative activity, archetypical, all-embracing, that hitherto I had sought in vain, at last…
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A. M. Klein
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New York City, United States of America
(Montreal, Canada)
Date:
1951
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All illusions lost, the only thing really left for him to do was to take that step. The gangplank already hauled off, and the last whistle blown, the steamship would weigh anchor. He again looked at…
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Samuel Rawet
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1956
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Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…
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Amos Elon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1971