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Citroen Park, an expansive area in the fifteenth arrondissement in Paris, was opened to the public in 1992 and became a major attraction for residents and tourists. There young Parisians, among others…
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Deganit Berest
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Paris, France
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2004
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The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even…
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Binyamin Tenenbaum
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1947
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Early in the morning the sun took a walk in the woods
with me and my father
my right hand in his left.
A knife flashed between the trees like lightning.
And I’m so scared of the fear in my eyes…
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Amir Gilboa
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1953
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She turns the pages, naked uncles
so naked and skinny, run and
even aunties with fannies showing
and others in pajamas as in a show
with yellow cloth stars sewed on.
And everybody so ugly and thin,
a…
Contributor:
Meir Wieseltier
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1968
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Yosl Bergner was only twenty-one years old and living in Australia when he painted this bleak picture. Many of his paintings were drawn from memories of his childhood in Warsaw but he also portrayed…
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Yosl Bergner
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Victoria, Australia (Victoria, Seychelles)
Date:
1941
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In January 1942, the Nazis began the large-scale deportations of Jews and Roma from the Łódź Ghetto to the Chełmno killing center, where, by the end of that September, they had murdered about 70,000…
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Mendel Grossman
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1942
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Amulets were crafted to protect pregnant women and newborn children from the powers of the evil Lilith, Adam’s mythical first wife. Mystical texts surround this image, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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Artist Unknown
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Kingdom of Travancore (State of Kerala, India)
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18th century
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However modestly my parents lived in the country, however little I was used to luxury and every comfort, at least at home I was used to cleanliness and order…
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Grigory Bogrov
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1863
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This unusual heart-shaped amulet from Morocco is inscribed with the words “God Almighty,” followed by the priestly blessing (Numbers 6:24–26) and an individualized text: “May God give him life and…
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Artist Unknown
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1861–1862
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This bronze medal by Jacques Elion commemorates the opening of a Jewish orphanage in Amsterdam. The Hebrew inscription reads: “Orphanage.” It was customary for Jewish communities to issue medals to…
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Jacques Elion
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1865