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At the end of the workday, the children were allowed to visit their parents and relatives for one hour. Sometimes there were longer visits on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. But there were no visits…
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Susan Goldman Rubin
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Malibu, United States of America
Date:
2000
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May this be written for a coming generation, that people yet to be created will praise Jah. For the signs and wonders that the most high God has performed for us, I am pleased to relate:
Know that in…
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Elijah Capsali
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Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
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1538
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Why weren’t my family evacuated? Well, at the beginning nobody thought the Germans would get as far as us. Of course, there was the first shock of their sudden attack and their rapid advance, but…
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Anatoli Rybakov
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1978
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Joseph Avis, a Quaker carpenter, was commissioned to build the first synagogue in England following the readmission of Jews in 1656: the synagogue of London’s Spanish and Portuguese community, on…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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1699–1701
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The Scuola Grande Tedesca is the oldest of five synagogues in the Venetian ghetto and was built in 1528 by the local Ashkenazic community. Although only its five windows are visible from the street…
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1528 and 1672
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Founded in 1548, the Italian Synagogue of Padua was moved to its current location by 1603. It was renovated in the nineteenth century and restored again after World War II, when the Scuola Grande…
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
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1548
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There were once hundreds of wooden synagogues in Poland and Lithuania, but only a very few examples of this particularly Jewish form of architecture have survived. The Zabłudów synagogue, built around…
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Zabludow, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zabłudów, Poland)
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ca. 1637
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. . . I head up the public-health service in the program to combat epidemics and also the hospital department. Besides, I also direct the medical board here in the ghetto, where over 800 doctors are…
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Israel Milejkowski
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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Bread, bread. The abundance of it dazzles your eyes. In the windows, on the stalls, in hands, in baskets. I won’t be able to hold out if I can’t grab a bite or bread-stuff. “Grab? You don’t look…
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Leyb Goldin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941