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When I observe a toothless ex-violinist,
with more hair than face, sprawled like Karl Marx
on a park seat or slumped, dead or asleep,
in the central heat of a public library
I think of Uncle Isidore…
Contributor:
Dannie Abse
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1976
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Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ]
The…
Contributor:
Ita Kalish
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1965
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About two weeks before the birth was due, Grandfather Zisskind appeared in Raya and Yehuda’s home for the second time. His face was yellow, angry, and the light had faded from his eyes. He greeted…
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Aharon Megged
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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He, Meyer, during all the days when they prepared Wanda for the journey (according to regulations, the women had to take along shoes, clothing…
Contributor:
Der Nister
Places:
Tashkent, USSR (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Date:
1943
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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?
Contributor:
Imre Kertész
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1990
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Around noon they got dressed warmly and went for a walk. The fog stood high, suddenly the sun broke through, Jesuit Meadow was full of snow. As they crossed Rustenschacher Street there was a Breughel…
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Robert Schindel
Places:
Vienna, Austria
Date:
1992
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Three Russians who didn’t understand Hebrew sat in the back of the synagogue. One was missing an arm. Two Polish Jews sat in front of them. One had his place by the partition so that he could stretch…
Contributor:
David Bezmozgis
Places:
Winnipeg, Canada
Date:
2004
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We couldn’t be Jews, my brother finally explained, raising his voice, because our grandmother had not been Jewish, and for Jews only your mother counts. We weren’t even half-Jewish, because our father…
Contributor:
Eva Menasse
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
2005
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“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are…
Contributor:
Carol Matas
Places:
Winnipeg, Canada
Date:
1993
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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