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We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…
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Arthur Koestler
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1944
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1966
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Mr. Lumbik was the first guest to arrive, rather too early. He had a big bunch of flowers in tissue paper, and wore a tweed jacket with leather buttons, which gave him a jaunty air. “A happy birthday…
Contributor:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1960
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Half a century has passed since the victory of the Allied troops put an abrupt end to Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question”—but the memory of the Holocaust goes on polluting the world of…
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Zygmunt Bauman
Places:
Durham, United States of America
(Leeds, United Kingdom)
Date:
1998
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The same. Three days later.
Maxis moving rocks.horstis putting the rock pile into neat order.
Horst:The air is fresh today. Clean.
[maxhandshorsta needle and a thread as he passes the…
Contributor:
Martin Sherman
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1979