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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…
Contributor:
Primo Levi
Places:
Turin, Italy
Date:
1946
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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
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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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Dense crowds proceed at dawn
Through Theresienstadt’s still empty streets
Five abreast curving around corners into squares.
The beast checks if anybody has stumbled.
Today God’s chosen people are…
Contributor:
Else Dormitzer
Places:
Theresienstadt, German-occupied Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)
Date:
1943
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All the Jews of Morocco donned mourning clothes when the bad news reached them, and everyone wailed and wept in public—because R. Judah was beloved and cherished and highly honored for his integrity…
Contributor:
Avraham S. Friedberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1893