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Among the very few possessions my parents were permitted to take with them when they emigrated as refugees from Austria to Bolivia in June 1939 was a box camera and two family photo…
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Leo Spitzer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
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When I was twelve, I read The Diary of Anne Frank.
I identified with her having to live
stories above a busy street
over a business, and having to keep quiet
for hours at a time.
I’d pad about on…
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Jane Shore
Places:
Chevy Chase, United States of America
Date:
1996
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“Your teeth are bars of bone. Behind them, in a crystal cell, your shackled words. Remember the advice of an elder: the guilty, those that dropped poison pearls into your goblet—let them go free. In…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1956
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On the Negev an autumn night falls
Surreptitiously igniting star after star
And as the wind crosses the threshold
Clouds spread over the path.
It’s been a year already. We hardly felt
How the times…
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Haim Gouri
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1949
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The men, women, and children who arrived, physically destroyed, at the death camp, had only one fixed idea: to survive. The average person, living in a bustling metropolis and enjoying freedom to a…
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Lázaro Liacho
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1969
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At the time for words, father, my adonai, leave it in my hands, the
shame that I don’t feel, and assign to me the job of justification,
what they call history.
The fact is that every land has its…
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Luisa Futoransky
Places:
Rome, Italy
Date:
1972
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Without Jews, no Jewish God.
If, God forbid, we should quit
this world, Your poor tent’s light
would out.
Abraham knew You in a cloud:
since then, You are the flame
of our face, the rays
our eyes…
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Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1946
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Everything will remember
That I was here.
The ships will be the color
Of my clothing,
The birds will use my voice for singing,
The fisherman on the rock
Will ponder my poem,
The river
Will follow my…
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Reyzl Zychlinsky
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1962
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I forget meticulously
I forget scrupulously
my native landscape
my daily landscape
I forget the ragged
I forget the billowy
clouds in a sky
clouds over a town
I forget to the end
I forget…
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Anna Frajlich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Sometimes, when I think of my past in a superficial, casual way, the metamorphosis I have gone through strikes me as nothing short of a miracle. I was born and…
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Abraham Cahan
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1917