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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…
Contributor:
Israel Milejkowski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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And in that drowning instant
as the water heightened over me
it suddenly did come to pass
my preterite eternity
the image of myself intent
on several freedoms
fading to
myself in yellowed Basle…
Contributor:
A. M. Klein
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
(Montreal, Canada)
Date:
1943
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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…
Contributor:
Susan Goldman Rubin
Places:
Malibu, United States of America
Date:
2000
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•Workers
•Handicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)
•Trade and industry under Aryan trustees
•Free professions…
Contributor:
Oyneg Shabes Archive
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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The end of summer is approaching and we can feel it. The days are still hot, but in the evening, there is a strange smell, the smell of leaves decaying and smoke, the smell of autumn…
Contributor:
Gonda Redlich
Places:
Theresienstadt, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
(Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)
Date:
1944
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But the distant lulls were merely the frame of the picture; the feast for Joseph’s eyes was the green Valley of Jezreel itself, the cradle of the Communes. Twenty years ago a desolate marsh cursed…
Contributor:
Arthur Koestler
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1946
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Yom Kippur, when the narrow alleys of the shulhoyf
cradle the small shtibls, pious and scared,
householders hurry with their taleisim
and old men shuffle along in their socks—
I feel the narrow…
Contributor:
Chaim Grade
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, mid-20th century
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…
Contributor:
Zelig Kalmanovitch
Date:
1942
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The case of Kafka, the acculturated Jew, shows how a man may feel his way into a body of collective history through his very consciousness of being outside it: Kafka brooded over the experience of the…
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Robert Alter
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1968
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My grandfather, like so many others, came to Canada by steerage from Poland in 1900 and settled down not far from Main Street in what was to become a ghetto. Here, as in the real America, the…
Contributor:
Mordecai Richler
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Canada)
Date:
1961