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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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“When I get papa out of jail, we’ll join you. We’ll meet at Strasbourg, don’t worry,” Mama said.
When Alex heard about the entire matter, he said: “No, I don’t want to go. I want Mama.”
Alex was very…
Contributor:
Ruth Almog
Places:
Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1999
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In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
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Gerald Stern
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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He, Meyer, during all the days when they prepared Wanda for the journey (according to regulations, the women had to take along shoes, clothing…
Contributor:
Der Nister
Places:
Tashkent, USSR (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Date:
1943
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Mikhail Trakhman
Date:
1942
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Laws are always tainted by the passions and the prejudices of the legislator.
—Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
In 1807, Mordecai Blum, his wife Rebecca, and his son David were living in a…
Contributor:
Godchaux Baruch Weil (Ben-Lévi)
Places:
Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1841
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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…
Contributor:
Mordecai Sheftall
Places:
Savannah, British America and the British West Indies (Savannah, United States of America)
Date:
ca. 1778–1779