Last Testament
Israel Lichtenstein
1942
With zeal and zest I threw myself into the work to help assemble archive materials. I was entrusted to be the custodian, I hid the material. Besides me, no one knew. I confided only in my friend Hersh Wasser, my superior.
It is well hidden. Please God that it be preserved. That will be the finest and best that we achieved in the present gruesome…
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