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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
Contributor:
Julius Margolin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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I wasn’t a very political adolescent. I had grown up surrounded by unexplained cautions, by ellipses, and all these silences had sealed off the public world, so that I didn’t really believe in it…
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Paul Zweig
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1986
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I belong to that peculiar generation of Jews who have the duty to speak Yiddish, my mother tongue, in a tongue at once familiar and “foreign”—French. Though Yiddish is still used as a vernacular…
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Myriam Anissimov
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1995
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One week later, as we returned from work, there, in the middle of the camp, in the Appelplatz, stood a black gallows.
We learned that soup would be distributed only after roll call, which lasted…
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Elie Wiesel
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1958