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But Who Emptied Your Shoes of Sand
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But who emptied your shoes of sandWhen you had to get up, to die?The sand which Israel gathered,Its nomad sand?Burning Sinai sand,Mingled with throats of nightingales,Mingled with wings of butterflies…

Contributor:

Nelly Sachs

Places:

Stockholm, Sweden

Date:

1947

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Holocaust, Migration, Memorial, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
The Jewish Census (Judenzählung)
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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…

Contributor:

Arnold Zweig

Places:

France, France

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Antisemitism, War, Military, Jewish identity, Death, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts
Todesfuge (1944–45)
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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night we drink and we drink we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped A man lives in…

Contributor:

Paul Celan

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1952

Subjects:

Holocaust, Fascism, Jewish identity, Torture, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
My Life as German and Jew
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I was born and raised in Fuerth, a predominantly Protestant manufacturing city of Middle Franconia, with a large Jewish community consisting principally of artisans and tradesmen. The Jews formed…

Contributor:

Jakob Wasserman

Places:

Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Altaussee, Austria

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Adolescence, Assimilation, Jewish identity, Christianity, Death, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
O the Chimneys
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19:26O the chimneysOn the ingeniously devised habitations of deathWhen Israel’s body drifted as smokeThrough the…

Contributor:

Nelly Sachs

Places:

Stockholm, Sweden

Date:

1947

Subjects:

Holocaust, Bible, Antisemitism, Jewish identity, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
The Jewish Woman
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I am a stranger. Since no one dares approach me I would be girded with towers That wear their steep and stone-gray caps Aloft in clouds. The brazen key you will not find That locks the musty…

Contributor:

Gertrud Kolmar

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Life cycle, Women, Jewish identity, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry