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For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility…
Contributor:
Yisroel Rabon
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic
(Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1928
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For four hours I sat engrossed while old Gershon Falk told his story, feeling all the while as though I were listening to a fantastic saga—as though I were in the presence of one from another time…
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Sh. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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Mordecai walked home from the village on the path that bordered the forest. All the talk of the elders in the village chief’s house had intoxicated him more than the strongest whiskey. Under his…
Contributor:
Rokhl Korn
Places:
Przemysl, Second Polish Republic
(Przemysl, Poland)
Date:
1936
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Meanwhile Reb Zalman, all undeterred, was arranging a match for Deborah, and one evening he arrived with a brand new proposal, one that was—in these hard modern times—almost too good to…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1936
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
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Yoysef Smolazh
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1937
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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
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Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…
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Isaiah Spiegel
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1946
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This small volume which I now present to you, my fellow readers, is an offshoot of the numerous saplings that I have planted for myself over the course of many days, nay years; for ever…
Contributor:
Abraham Ber Gottlober
Places:
Józefów, Kingdom of Poland
(Józefów, Poland)
Date:
1837
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Michael began to visit that house.
At first he did so only occasionally, but later he began to come every day, in the afternoon or early evening. At first, he intended to arrive just when…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
Places:
Breslau, German Empire
(Wroclaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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The worst conflagration is that which flares up from the depths. All the water in the world can’t extinguish such a fire before it has gutted everything in its way, because by the time it has been…
Contributor:
Mordekhai Feierberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899