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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…
Contributor:
Joseph Barishac
Places:
Edirne, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1912
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One of the comrades on sick call had a chat with an army guard. This is the account he gave:
“How stupid can you get, I ask you, what are the limits of human stupidity! This…
Contributor:
Erno Szép
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1945
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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…
Contributor:
Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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A Jewish girl, having been sent by her parents on an errand to a Jewish neighbour, was one day suddenly seized in the street by a Moslem and forcibly carried off to a Moslem house and compelled to…
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Morris Cohen
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1893
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[ . . . ] [A]n Ashkenazic sage came to Ṣanʿāʾ in the time of Sar Shalom al-ʿIrāqī (d. 1780) . . . and stayed at his house and ate at his table. Fearing for the Ashkenazi’s life, Sar Shalom told him…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Ḥabshūsh
Places:
Sana'a, Ottoman Empire
(Sanaa, Yemen)
Date:
1894
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Today is Wednesday, February 17, 1943. Exactly twelve weeks have passed since we went into hiding here at Felek’s. Twelve weeks are eighty-four days and, if my arithmetic is correct, 2016 hours. That…
Contributor:
Leyb Rochman
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1949