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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…
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Henryka Łazowertówna
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Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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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…
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Bogdan Wojdowski
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Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1971
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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…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1809
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Come, O heart, and proclaim a flood upon the world; no…
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Bābāī ibn Farhād
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Kashan, Afsharid Iran (Kashan, Iran)
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Mid– to Late 18th Century
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Always, by the time the humid, breathless, summer night lifted its veil and a quiet, rosy dawn emerged, when some glimmers of soft, opaque light began to filter through the dried muddy, dusty window…
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Dovid Mitzmacher
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926
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He was learning about the Jewish festivals from Leo. The arrival of the new year was suddenly upon him, and that’s when he decided that fasting on Yom Kippur would be a fine adventure. The…
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Bernardo Verbitsky
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1941
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
Date:
1946
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The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
Judah is in mourning,
Her settlements languish.
Men are bowed to the ground,
And the outcry of Jerusalem rises.
The…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…
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Israel Zangwill
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1892
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Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, and Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years. Ahab…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period