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Sefer ha-zikaron (The Book of Memory)
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I have written this down in connection with all that befell us during that year five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine [1809] here, in our holy community of Pressburg. Now an omen of this had…

Contributor:

Moses Sofer

Places:

Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)

Date:

1809

Subjects:

Hunger, War, Punishment, Theology, Cemetery

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)
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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

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Hunger, Death, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries