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Good night, wide world.
Big, stinking world.
Not you, but I, slam the gate.
In my long robe,
With my flaming, yellow patch,
With my proud gait,
At my own command—
I return to the ghetto.
Wipe out…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…
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Etty Hillesum
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1943
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A round number. At first glance it looks silly and seems to have no specific meaning. A detached number such as this can be likened to those gray people who go through life alone and die without…
Contributor:
Yehoshua Perle
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a…
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Elias Canetti
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1968
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The Jews of Tunis have not been confined to the hara for a long time now. Since the end of the last century, those acquiring a degree of ease have abandoned it and…
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Paul Sebag
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Tunis, Tunisia
Date:
1959
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2. What was it that made for the peculiar position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and later, until emancipation came along? It was the ghetto, we are told and told again, which was at the root of…
Contributor:
Max Weinreich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1967
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Presess Rumkowski plunged into the sea of activities and duties like a brave captain who knows his destination, sure that no blizzard, no stormy chaos will cause the ship entrusted into his hands by…
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Chava Rosenfarb
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1972
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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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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
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Peretz Opoczynski
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Sunday, November 1 [1942], it was announced in the order of the day that all policemen must assemble at twenty minutes past two in the premises of the former Slobodka Yeshive for a solemn oath-taking…
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Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943