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Sefer ha-zikaron (The Book of Memory)
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I have written this down in connection with all that befell us during that year five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine [1809] here, in our holy community of Pressburg. Now an omen of this had…

Contributor:

Moses Sofer

Places:

Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)

Date:

1809

Subjects:

Hunger, War, Punishment, Theology, Cemetery

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
In the Hands of the British
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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…

Contributor:

Mordecai Sheftall

Places:

Savannah, British America and the British West Indies (Savannah, United States of America)

Date:

ca. 1778–1779

Subjects:

War, Family, Food and drink, Justice system, Punishment

Categories:

Historical writing, Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries