Showing Results 11 - 20 of 20
Restricted
Text
Over and above all else we gather here tonight to dedicate ourselves to the loftiest hopes of our country, to renew unshakeable faith in the victory, early or late, of America and all the United…
Contributor:
Stephen S. Wise
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1942
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
As I was crossing Alexanderplatz on the first of April, I noticed a crowd of people gathering near the U-Bahn station at the other end of the square. The loudspeakers blared across the open space,…
Contributor:
Lisa Fittko
Places:
Munich, Germany
(Chicago, United States of America)
Date:
1992
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I thought of the beautiful angel in the picture that had hung over our bed before the war. Her giant wings hovering over, almost enveloping two children crossing a bridge over a ravine. Please make my…
Contributor:
Anita Lobel
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Image
At the end of the workday, the children were allowed to visit their parents and relatives for one hour. Sometimes there were longer visits on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. But there were no visits…
Contributor:
Susan Goldman Rubin
Places:
Malibu, United States of America
Date:
2000
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The same. Three days later.
Maxis moving rocks.horstis putting the rock pile into neat order.
Horst:The air is fresh today. Clean.
[maxhandshorsta needle and a thread as he passes the…
Contributor:
Martin Sherman
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1979
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ]
The…
Contributor:
Ita Kalish
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1965
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Now, more than at any time in the history of our people, humor has a place in Jewish life. I was delighted to find the Jewish Publication Society in agreement with me that at the present time…
Contributor:
Samuel Felix Mendelsohn
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1941
Categories:
Restricted
Text
At the appointed café on Leopoldstrasse, HF is waiting by the door, which he holds open for me. It is perfect weather for sitting out of doors, but he rejects the sidewalk tables. Inside it is dark…
Contributor:
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Captain Wolfgang Hoffmann was a zealous executioner of Jews. As the commander of one of the three companies of Police Battalion 101, he and his fellow officers led their men, who were not SS men but…
Contributor:
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Places:
Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1996
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[…]Uncle Herbert was right, part of the time they made them use toothbrushes, for a joke. They sloshed bucketfuls of ammonia and other stuff that burns the skin and stings the eyes over the street and…
Contributor:
Doris Orgel
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1978