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Among the very few possessions my parents were permitted to take with them when they emigrated as refugees from Austria to Bolivia in June 1939 was a box camera and two family photo…
Contributor:
Leo Spitzer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
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What does the Voice of Auschwitz command?
Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
1969
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These nocturnal passenger trains in wartime have their own peculiar sounds. The deportation wagons have a way of screeching, like an eagle or a vulture—whereas this kind of train whines and groans as…
Contributor:
Béla Zsolt
Places:
Budapest, Hungarian Republic
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1947
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…
Contributor:
Avraham Levite
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
(Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1945
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Any public Jewish institution that is inextricably tied to the greater Jewish community can only express its deep sorrow as it looks back over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of our brethren, the…
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Fülöp Grünwald
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1943
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Witness 4:When we had crossed the tracks
and were waiting
at the entrance to the camp
I heard
a prisoner say to a woman
The Red Cross van is only used
to carry gas to the…
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Peter Weiss
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1965
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…I remember a woman
who sat on the pot where the apples cooked in the cold
basement, her face black from smoke. And here, near this brick
building with a red tile roof, is one of our family, Mausha
V…
Contributor:
Myra Sklarew
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1995