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When the bus disappeared, taking away their child, the Bensaïds remained on the empty sidewalk, their souls as barren as if their daughter had been carried off by death.
With a…
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Irma Ychou
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1947
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Noted for Service, the Jewish woman, especially in America, faces her greatest opportunities.
It has always been the same story for her. Her home has been the circle from which she has radiated…
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Belle Moskowitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1917
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Together with many others we emigrated from Kraków to the great city of Vienna. It is already ten weeks since we relocated here. We withstood many troubles. For nearly two weeks we simply wandered in…
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Sarah Schenirer
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1915
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When history recounts the life and fortune of the peoples who lived in various epochs, when it lets us believe in the marvelous strides that they had made, whether in the field of war, or for…
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Klara
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
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1903
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1908
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“You found the victim?”
She nodded.
“Was she conscious at the time?”
“Yes. Baruch Hashem.”
“Pardon?”
“Nothing. Mrs. Adler was conscious.”
“That’s fine,” Decker said. He faced the uniforms. “Cordon off…
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Faye Kellerman
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1986
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A Holocaust survivor grapples with the question: should one bring children into the world after experiencing the horrors of the death camps?
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Imre Kertész
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Budapest, Hungary
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1990
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My day—
Is punctured like a sieve,
And ridiculed like a whim.
May winter whiteness blossom,
May autumns turn gray,
May summers whistle—
Become nightingales.
When a rye-wind
Would have twisted my…
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Kadya Molodovsky
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
New York City, United States of America
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1935
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Léon Weissberg
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1926
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If I had to pick one defining moment in my Iranian life, it would be 5:00 a.m. one Friday in the fall of 1968. I was fifteen. Normally I woke to the sounds of a peddler selling green almonds and fava…
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Farideh Goldin
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Norfolk, United States of America
Date:
2003