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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…
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Mihail Sebastian
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1943
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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…
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Anne Frank
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Amsterdam, Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1944
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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…
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Arnold Zweig
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French Republic (France, France)
Date:
1916
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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…
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Paul Ghez
Places:
Westerbork, Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)
Date:
1943
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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…
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Norman Mailer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1948
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Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…
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Moses Bar Abraham
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1686–1687
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Things have changed since we last met. Some of your friends have already reached their homeland; others are soon to follow. Once opened, the gates will not shut again. Nothing will ever be the same as…
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Elie Wiesel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1977
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T.J.:Why don’t you get the lead out of your can and do something for once?
Coney [to Finch]:You finish your map.
Finch:It’s finished, Coney.
Coney:Well, let T. J. Rockefeller do something besides…
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Arthur Laurents
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945