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(Short Poems in Prose)
Contributor:
Yosef Kirman
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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And now Blimele, dear child,
Stop—stop playing now.
No time for that.
We can be called at any minute
To leave our poor home
—A lonely boat on an island of sand—
And be hurled into the midst
Of a…
Contributor:
Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh
Places:
Lodz, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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A group of people living together under extreme coercive conditions without the conscious intent of forming a community of common fate created forms that were only possible on the basis of the ghetto…
Contributor:
Oskar Rosenfeld
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Everyone appreciated the importance of the work that was being done. They understood how important it was for future generations that a record remain of the tragedy of Polish Jewry. Some realized that…
Contributor:
Emanuel Ringelblum
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Sunday, November 1 [1942], it was announced in the order of the day that all policemen must assemble at twenty minutes past two in the premises of the former Slobodka Yeshive for a solemn oath-taking…
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Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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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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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…
Contributor:
Josef Zelkowicz
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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Where shall I start? My thoughts are in turmoil. There is an overpowering desire burning in me to put in writing as speedily as possible all that has happened to us in these years of war, especially…
Contributor:
Stanislaw Adler
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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While imprisoned by the Nazis and awaiting her death, Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger recalls her last supper with other resistance leaders in the Vilna ghetto.
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Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger
Places:
Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…
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Etty Hillesum
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1943