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But what does Padre Dávalos know about what I feel for Jacobo? I wasn’t going to go and listen to him speak against the Jews. He hates the Jews because Marcos paid no attention whatever to him. When…
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Isaac Goldemberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Kishinev, Russian Empire
(Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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Hot lava flows in my veins to-night,
My nerves are jangling mad,
The Joy of Life is a tinsel gaud,
The sweetest songs sound sad.
I feel the drag of the Wanderlust,
I see the ghosts stream by…
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Nathan Spielvogel
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Ballarat, Australia
Date:
1913
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…
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Avraham Levite
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
(Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1945
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The journal is my life, my companion and my confidant. Without it I would be lost. In it I pour out all my heart’s feelings, until I feel somewhat relieved. When I am angry and…
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Chaim A. Kaplan
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Witness 4:When we had crossed the tracks
and were waiting
at the entrance to the camp
I heard
a prisoner say to a woman
The Red Cross van is only used
to carry gas to the…
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Peter Weiss
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Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1965
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19: 26
O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel’s body drifted as smoke
Th…
Contributor:
Nelly Sachs
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1947
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Jacob Gottlieb Thelot
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia
(Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1738
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So since we are in the midst of writing a song,
We will write also about the destruction of the holy community of Kremzir,
Even though this happened five years before,
In the year 1643, on the 9th of…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
Places:
Kremzir, Holy Roman Empire
(Kroměříž, Czech Republic)
Date:
1648