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The German occupation with its huge system of ghettos, concentration camps, death camps, and more cannot be represented in a normal human tongue. No depictions, documents, and images can…
Contributor:
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1947
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I cannot express my thanks to the German Book Trade for the honor conferred on me without at the same time setting forth the sense in which I have accepted it, just as I earlier accepted the Hanseatic…
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Martin Buber
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Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1953
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The Satisfied One:I am gratified by the success in Vienna of The Diary of Anne Frank. It is a harrowing play. And it…
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Friedrich Torberg
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
1957
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Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky is without question the most forceful of recent novels written about the fate of Jews in Nazi Europe. There has been rare critical unanimity in this respect. To find…
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Anna Langfus
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1961
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1966
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The Book of the Ghetto Wars is intended to bring together a selection of the materials in our possession—testimony, journals and notes, documents, studies, poems, and stories—that were created during…
Contributor:
Antek Zuckerman, Moshe Basok
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1954
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“Your teeth are bars of bone. Behind them, in a crystal cell, your shackled words. Remember the advice of an elder: the guilty, those that dropped poison pearls into your goblet—let them go free. In…
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Abraham Sutzkever
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1956
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All of a sudden, Grandmother’s empty burial plot is occupied. They finally returned mother to father’s side. One tree spreads its shadow over both their graves. Grandmother, too, finally gets what she…
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Naomi Frankel
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Bet Alfa, Israel
Date:
1967
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We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…
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Arthur Koestler
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1944
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For some days past, newsreels about the concentration camps have been showing in the movie theaters of Buenos Aires. The public can now easily observe the methods used by the Germans in the death…
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Alberto Gerchunoff
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1945