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A major segment of the Jewish people—the Jewish communities in Western and Central Europe—is today experiencing one of the most difficult moments in all of Jewish history. Although we Jews as a people…
Contributor:
Antek Zuckerman, Eliyohu Gutkowski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1940
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
Contributor:
Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Over the wall, through holes, and past the guard,
Through the wires, ruins, and fences.
Plucky, hungry, and determined
I sneak through, dart like a cat.
At noon, at night, at dawn,
In snowstorm…
Contributor:
Henryka Łazowertówna
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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For my child, today, it is so easy
to make the awful discovery, that people kill
and are killed: both things and people
speak the language of the red angel.
My child asks me: Why are people being…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
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1930s
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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…
Contributor:
Leyb Goldin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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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…
Contributor:
Mordecai Gebirtig
Places:
Kraków, General Government
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1940
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An elegy to the Jews deported from the Warsaw ghetto from a Jew hiding on the “Aryan” side of the city.
Contributor:
Rachel Auerbach
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1943
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(Short Poems in Prose)
Contributor:
Yosef Kirman
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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And now Blimele, dear child,
Stop—stop playing now.
No time for that.
We can be called at any minute
To leave our poor home
—A lonely boat on an island of sand—
And be hurled into the midst
Of a…
Contributor:
Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh
Places:
Lodz, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
Contributor:
Shimon Huberband
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941