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The world is wicked. To us Jews—of course and of course. And if we are facing destruction, we must be ready, we must be armed against destruction. Fascism wants to exterminate us. It is a war on death…
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Joseph Opatoshu
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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•Workers
•Handicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)
•Trade and industry under Aryan trustees
•Free professions…
Contributor:
Oyneg Shabes Archive
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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The most terrible thing of all, somehow, was that at Brzezinka the sun was bright and warm, the rows of graceful poplars were lovely to look upon and on the grass near the gates children played.
It…
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A. M. Rosenthal
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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My negotiations with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his associates, which culminated in the Luxembourg Agreement of 1952, make up one of the…
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Nahum Goldmann
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1969
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For the past few years, both in France and Germany, I was awed by the valiant struggle of people who, though only recently liberated from indescribable cruelty, exhibited extraordinary powers of…
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Leo W. Schwarz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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Five years have passed since that mournful 5th of March, which witnessed the so-called election of Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich. It might long have been foreseen and perhaps even averted…
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Stephen S. Wise
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
Contributor:
Shimon Huberband
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Over and above all else we gather here tonight to dedicate ourselves to the loftiest hopes of our country, to renew unshakeable faith in the victory, early or late, of America and all the United…
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Stephen S. Wise
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1942
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With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of heart and soul and brain to forge a world in which humanity may live in peace. This new world must be based on the…
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American Jewish Committee
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1944
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One week later, as we returned from work, there, in the middle of the camp, in the Appelplatz, stood a black gallows.
We learned that soup would be distributed only after roll call, which lasted…
Contributor:
Elie Wiesel
Places:
Paris, France
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1958