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And so its pain is unremitting, like an amputated leg
This ash and feathery void chafes at us,
They say two willows were seen in Mazowsze
wearing green prayer shawls also a market stall
in the middle…
Contributor:
Arnold Slucki
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1950
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[…] Among such divergent opinions, poor Iduzza didn’t dare formulate any view on her own.
To the many mysteries of Authority which frightened her there had now been added the word Aryans, which she…
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Elsa Morante
Places:
Rome, Italy
Date:
1974
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At first Berka had avoided Hershl, but the latter persisted in his visits to Berka’s workshop, ignoring his deliberate rudeness. While Hershl spoke to him Berka hammered away at his last in silence…
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Rose Zwi
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Date:
1980
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Nathan Rapoport
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Warsaw, Republic of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1948
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Arthur Szyk
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1943
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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…
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Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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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…
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Erno Szép
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1945
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Pinkes Varshe is a memorial erected by the immigrants from Warsaw in Argentina in honor of those generations of Warsaw Jews who, with their lives and struggles, with their heroism and spirituality…
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1955
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The shtetl, lost here among Polish fields and groves, might be called Turek or Przasnysz, Konin or Maków, yet what one remembers is not the name but the old marketplace reeking of tar and dung where a…
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Sofia Dubnova-Erlich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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My feet walk the streets of this blessed city,
Only yesterday full of faithful adherents of Sinai.
My eyes do not have the courage to look up.
The bitterness of my soul is great, O Holy God!
I…
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Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia
Date:
1943