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After Havdaleh
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“ . . . And all those who are on the left side go and wander in the world and seek to dress themselves in the body.”—From Zohar Beraishit When the Havdoleh candle is extinguished, In Gehenna, the…

Contributor:

Aaron Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1920

Subjects:

Exile, Sabbath, Violence, Angels, demons & deities, War, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
Justyna’s Diary
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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.

Contributor:

Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger

Places:

Kraków, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Rebellion, War, Jewish quarters, Sabbath, Holocaust

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Photo of three Jewish women wearing badges identifying them as Jewish, in the Vilna ghetto.