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When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
Contributor:
Szymon Draenger
Places:
Kraków, General Government
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…
Contributor:
Zalmen Gradowski
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
(Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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“The Final Solution of the Jewish Question” was the code name assigned by the German bureaucracy to the annihilation of the Jews. The very composition of the code name, when analyzed, reveals its…
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Lucy S. Dawidowicz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…
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Avraham Levite
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
(Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1945
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A fire is now sweeping over the whole Old World, threatening to annihilate, heaven forbid, more than two-thirds of the Jewish people. Nobody can guarantee that the fire, heaven…
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Yosef Yitshak Schneersohn
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1941
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Any public Jewish institution that is inextricably tied to the greater Jewish community can only express its deep sorrow as it looks back over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of our brethren, the…
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Fülöp Grünwald
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1943
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The mass mind is eminently retentive. Man, in Nietzsche’s definition, is the being with the longest memory, and José Ortega y Gasset has recently affirmed (in his Toward a Philosophy of History) the…
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Joshua Trachtenberg
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1943
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The journal is my life, my companion and my confidant. Without it I would be lost. In it I pour out all my heart’s feelings, until I feel somewhat relieved. When I am angry and…
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Chaim A. Kaplan
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Today is Wednesday, February 17, 1943. Exactly twelve weeks have passed since we went into hiding here at Felek’s. Twelve weeks are eighty-four days and, if my arithmetic is correct, 2016 hours. That…
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Leyb Rochman
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1949
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Witness 4:When we had crossed the tracks
and were waiting
at the entrance to the camp
I heard
a prisoner say to a woman
The Red Cross van is only used
to carry gas to the…
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Peter Weiss
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1965