Introduction to the Projected Anthology Auschwitz

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 documentation, then at least documentary fragments of how we felt as living corpses, how we thought and spoke. We have been buried alive, and the world…

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With the grim statement, “We know: we will not come out of here alive,” Avraham Levite opened his “Introduction to a Projected Anthology Auschwitz,” about the daily suffering of Jews in Nazi concentration camps. The Yiddish collection was meant to include poems, descriptions of everyday camp life, and historical material documenting Jewish suffering. Although the anthology itself was lost, Levite’s introduction survived because he entrusted it to a U.S. Army chaplain after the war. For many years, this text was included in the standard Holocaust curriculum in Israeli public schools, reflecting its lasting educational and historical importance.
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