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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
Contributor:
Shimon Huberband
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Still, still, let us be still.
Graves grow here.
Planted by the enemy,
they blossom to the sky.
All the roads lead to Ponar,
and none returns.
Somewhere father disappeared,
disappeared with all our…
Contributor:
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Date:
1942
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How and with what will you fill
Your cup on the day you’re free?
Will you in your joy still
Hear the scream of the past
Where the skulls of chained days
Clot in bottomless pits?
Searching…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Date:
1943
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our lightless awful days are passing
splinters of memories prick our brains
daily our Creator beats us using both hands
we are his dry weeds husked to the core
for us fire is no fire for us it is…
Contributor:
Stefánia Mándy
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…
Contributor:
Isaiah Spiegel
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1946
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In The Dead Class, the most famous of Kantor’s theater pieces from the 1970s, the main characters of the play are elderly men (who are to be understood as being dead), who return to their school desks…
Contributor:
Tadeusz Kantor
Places:
Kraków, Poland
Date:
1975
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The journal is my life, my companion and my confidant. Without it I would be lost. In it I pour out all my heart’s feelings, until I feel somewhat relieved. When I am angry and…
Contributor:
Chaim A. Kaplan
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…
Contributor:
Avraham Levite
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1945
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We live in a prison. We have been degraded to the level of homeless and uncared-for animals. When we…
Contributor:
Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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An elegy to the Jews deported from the Warsaw ghetto from a Jew hiding on the “Aryan” side of the city.
Contributor:
Rachel Auerbach
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943