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But all this came to an end one night. In almost every one of his novels, Warszawski retells the scene in the winter of 1944 when he came home at three o’clock in the morning, after a night of dancing…
Contributor:
Maxim Biller
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1990
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[…] I want to tell you about my brother’s ghost.
I had so looked forward to seeing him again: my Schorschi, my Czech brother, who had sent us a few postcards from Theresienstadt. But he wasn’t there…
Contributor:
Ruth Klüger
Places:
Munich, Germany
(Irvine, United States of America)
Date:
1992
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The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…
Contributor:
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1999
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Aron maintained confident hope in one child. To this day, it remains uncertain whether or not this hope was fulfilled, but you can’t talk to him about it.
The transport that led from the Bohemian…
Contributor:
Jurek Becker
Places:
East Berlin, East Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1976
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Around noon they got dressed warmly and went for a walk. The fog stood high, suddenly the sun broke through, Jesuit Meadow was full of snow. As they crossed Rustenschacher Street there was a Breughel…
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Robert Schindel
Date:
1992
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Jakob Fandler took uneasy note of the changes in his son. It was as if a stranger he had known for a long time and then banned from his life, had suddenly shown up and moved in with him. He had…
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Doron Rabinovici
Date:
1997
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We couldn’t be Jews, my brother finally explained, raising his voice, because our grandmother had not been Jewish, and for Jews only your mother counts. We weren’t even half-Jewish, because our father…
Contributor:
Eva Menasse
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
2005