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19 August 1943
Today, dear Anka, is the anniversary of your Golgotha, tomorrow the anniversary of your death. A year has passed since I last saw you. You see, Anka, I do not believe in God and never…
Contributor:
Calel Perechodnik
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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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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I am beginning to get used to the years of war. We seem to struggle through the same journey from first of January to first of January, in a nightmare that is itself beginning…
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Mihail Sebastian
Places:
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
(Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1943
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Her Yoysef was hanging on the shaft of the well. His beard lay humbly on his breast. His fallen shoulders and feebly dangling hands expressed the most profound hopelessness. What can I do? A stone has…
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Rivke Rubin
Date:
1943
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Meylekh Snitkever takes the heavy shears and looks at them silently. He holds them in both hands as if to weigh them. Then he shifts his stare to me, the muscles moving in his jaws, which are covered…
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Yekhiel Falikman
Date:
1945
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Jews, let us be cheerful!
It won’t be long, don’t fear—
The war will soon be over.
Their end is very near.
Cheerful, don’t you worry.
Don’t go around so sad.
Have both hope and patience—
Bear things…
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Mordecai Gebirtig
Places:
Kraków, General Government
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1940
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[When the lights come up again we’re in a courtroom. Three colonels at the judges’ table. On one side, prosecutor matzkas, and Simon, a military judge. On the other side defense attorney devcsery. Opp…
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Aharon Megged
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1958
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I don’t know what possessed me, but I decided to take the guided tour of Frankfurt. The minute I set eyes on the American tourists and heard the practiced laugh with which the…
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Dan Ben-Amotz
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1968
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The Jews held cattle dealers in contempt. They considered them illiterate louts in no way different from peasants. My grandfather never let a cattle dealer into his house. Into the barn yes, but never…
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Henryk Grynberg
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1970
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Ay, a lifetime buzzed away . . . what is it, all in all? A dream, a short Friday in winter. . . .
Most people start to philosophize after a savory pot roast and a shot of liquor. Reb Nakhmen the…
Contributor:
Yekhiel Shraybman
Date:
1973