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There was a mysterious jar on one of the shelves. It contained about twenty gray, hard, colorless, tasteless little rods and did not have a label. This was very strange, because it was a German…
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Primo Levi
Places:
Turin, Italy
Date:
1975
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To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
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Morris Grossman
Places:
Fairfield, United States of America
Date:
1986
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The vast majority of London’s Jews live in the northern suburbs. In the 1990s, the borough of Barnet in the northwest emerged as one of the largest Jewish areas. Redbridge, east of London, is the…
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Toni L. Kamins
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2000
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Miriam Steinberg of Highland Park, Illinois, would never think of making her weekly challah without first separating some dough, reciting a blessing over it, and then burning it in the oven, in…
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Joan Nathan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2004
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[…] Every year, out of 5.5 million Israeli Jewish citizens, about 50,000 travel to India as backpackers, most of them immediately after their military service. Backpacking is a very significant…
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Darya Maoz
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Albany, United States of America
Date:
2005
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I thought of the beautiful angel in the picture that had hung over our bed before the war. Her giant wings hovering over, almost enveloping two children crossing a bridge over a ravine. Please make my…
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Anita Lobel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
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As for me, my youth began very early. At the age of ten, I was already a grownup, a Polner mentsh, as the Jews said. Besides my diligent studies, back then I was a “God-seeker.” I felt confined, and…
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Puah Rakovsky
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1942
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…
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Josef Zelkowicz
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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Where shall I start? My thoughts are in turmoil. There is an overpowering desire burning in me to put in writing as speedily as possible all that has happened to us in these years of war, especially…
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Stanislaw Adler
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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While imprisoned by the Nazis and awaiting her death, Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger recalls her last supper with other resistance leaders in the Vilna ghetto.
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Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger
Places:
Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943