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The women of our family will come to me in dreams at night and say:
Modestly we carried a pure blood across generations,
Bringing it to you like well-guarded wine from the kosher
Cellars of our…
Contributor:
Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1927
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When the cool, colorful, gentile Sundays come,
both sit—Valenti, the watchman from my courtyard
and his pock-marked, redmouthed, piggish old lady
back-to-back on a wooden bench.
Both of them gaze…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
Contributor:
Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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He did not object to their unending walk, on and on until they reached a quiet spot. He did not complain of feeling tired. He did not insist that the blanket should be spread somewhere nearer to other…
Contributor:
Adolf Rudnicki
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1951
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He felt a gnawing sensation. He knew it was hunger. Nothing in his mouth since morning except for those slops, the slops from the Judenrat kitchen, a watery soup that was almost free, just fifty…
Contributor:
Bogdan Wojdowski
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1971
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My childhood, if we’re speaking of relations at home, was exceptionally easy; I never felt a need to rebel against my parents’ conservatism. I encountered no gates to break through—they were all…
Contributor:
Artur Sandauer
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1963
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Over the wall, through holes, and past the guard,
Through the wires, ruins, and fences.
Plucky, hungry, and determined
I sneak through, dart like a cat.
At noon, at night, at dawn,
In snowstorm…
Contributor:
Henryka Łazowertówna
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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The cartwheels rush,
quivering.
What is their burden?
Shoes, shivering.
The cart is like
a great hall:
the shoes crushed together
as though at a ball.
A wedding? A party?
Have I gone blind?
Who…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Date:
1943
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Trees cry for rain
And mountains for air.
So cry my eyes
For you, dear Mother;
So cry my eyes
For you, dear Mother.
I turn and I ask what will become of me.
In Polish lands
I am destined to die.
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Contributor:
Koro Saloniko
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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Yetkhen:
And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I…
Contributor:
Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
Places:
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
Date:
1796