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Everything, nearly everything, was taken away from us in the ghettos and concentration camps by the great criminals. They did not spare our treasures, both material and spiritual. Even our…
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Israel Kaplan
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1949
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Matthäus Merian
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1628
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Two years ago, during a committee meeting at the Congress in Basle, I said: “We must think of creating once again a Jewry of muscles.”
Once again! For history is our witness that such a Jewry had…
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Max Nordau
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1903
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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And the resistance, I will be asked: Where is the resistance? Could it be that the heroes are gathering in the shoe factory or in the freight yard, at least a few? Is it possible that at the ghetto’s…
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Jurek Becker
Places:
East Berlin, East Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1969
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Max Liebermann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1908
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Now let us see whether the economic factor has influenced the history of our people in Europe, and in what ways this influence can be seen. [ . . . ]
In the final analysis, the Jews were necessary in…
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Ḥayim Horowitz
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1899
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On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a…
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Elias Canetti
Places:
Munich, Germany
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1968
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Every day they took from us whatever their hearts desired. They said to us, “We are needed to protect you from the mob.” We had no choice but to believe them. We had to take being cheated. They…
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Elhanan Helen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1616
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Johannes Alexander Böner
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705