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The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
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Hersh Dovid Nomberg
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1925–1926
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Citizen Voli Brener
A Moscow snowy morning, sun-streaked and dry. When it falls on a Sunday, the morning shines with a thousand Moscow sparkles—rejuvenating white lights that charm and shimmer, as if…
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David Bergelson
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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At three in the morning, Rabbi Sholem Tuvim returned home from visiting his sick father. His father was in great need of comfort, and he, Reb Sholem, would have stayed by him the entire night if the…
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Joseph Opatoshu
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New York City, United States of America
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1928
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Father had been able to save a little from his earnings and felt that it would last till the end of the war—but he used that money to buy back those prayers shawls! So now we were penniless.
Father…
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Yehudah Yaari
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1932
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When the forest-writer Avraham-Yisroel moved from the woods into the city, he had his own wife, three daughters, and two sons. He also had…
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Sh. Horonczyk
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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I slept with a murderer every night of my life for two years. The murderer is dead now. He died some weeks ago in Chicago. That is why I am free to tell the tale.
I was a small boy at that time. I…
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Louis Golding
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Manchester, United Kingdom
Date:
1938
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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no…
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Jacob Steinberg
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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I was standing in the park under that tree. They call it the Hanging Elm. Once upon a time it made a big improvement on all kinds of hooligans. Nowadays if, once in a while…No. So this woman comes up…
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Grace Paley
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1985
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All the Jewish children’s homes and live-in kindergartens that Robi Singer had been attending since the age of four had something in common. Besides a birth certificate and vaccination papers, they…
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György Dalos
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
1990
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A Holocaust survivor grapples with the question: should one bring children into the world after experiencing the horrors of the death camps?
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Imre Kertész
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1990