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Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…
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Sh. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Tunis, November 1920
Zionism still continues to make progress in Tunisia. In all the major cities of the Regency, Zionist committees have already been established. In Tunis itself there…
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Alliance Israélite Universelle
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Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Tangier, French Protectorate in Morocco (Tangier, Morocco)
Sousse, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Sousse, Tunisia)
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1920–1938
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Despair before loss. The first reaction in relation to our world movement and its status in wartime was among many…
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Moshe Kroneh
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1939
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…
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Zalmen Gradowski
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a…
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Elias Canetti
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1968
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In the month of Tevet of the same year I entered that school and began studying Greek with tremendous dedication. I repented of all my previous actions and habits, just as I had promised my father (of…
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Abraham Rosanes
Places:
Ruse, Ottoman Empire (Ruse, Bulgaria)
Date:
1864
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I want to profess straight off that I am a Jew. Does it require justification if I write in a spirit other than that of defending the Jews? Many of my fellow tribesmen know themselves only as Germans…
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Walter Rathenau
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1897
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When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior…
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Henryk M. Broder
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1979
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I have the good luck to be a Polish Jew.
If I were a Greek Jew, a Dutch Jew, a Turkish Jew, or some other kind of Jew, I would be miserable. Who would pay any attention to me and who would be…
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Moyshe Nudelman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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The months of which I am about to write are probably amongst the most painful in my whole life; I interrupted my work on the book for a long time trying to summon up the courage to embark on this…
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Ilya Ehrenburg
Date:
1966