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Everything, nearly everything, was taken away from us in the ghettos and concentration camps by the great criminals. They did not spare our treasures, both material and spiritual. Even our…
Contributor:
Israel Kaplan
Places:
Munich, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1949
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Without the appropriate distance, writing history is particularly difficult and thorny in this case. And there is an additional element of complexity. Forced into the thankless role of the prosecutor…
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Josef Wulf, Léon Poliakov
Places:
Berlin, West Germany
(Germany)
Date:
1955
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People are forever quoting Talleyrand’s remark that language is only there in order to hide the thoughts of the diplomat (or for that matter of any other shrewd and dubious person). But in fact the…
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Victor Klemperer
Places:
Dölzschen, East Germany
(Dölzschen, Germany)
Date:
1947
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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But all this came to an end one night. In almost every one of his novels, Warszawski retells the scene in the winter of 1944 when he came home at three o’clock in the morning, after a night of dancing…
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Maxim Biller
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1990
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I—a Jewess—am by definition not a member of the species, or: why should a Jewess not have problems with public assistance and with her children? The postwar German Jew, to the extent that such a being…
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Esther Dischereit
Places:
New York, United States of America
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1994
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I cannot express my thanks to the German Book Trade for the honor conferred on me without at the same time setting forth the sense in which I have accepted it, just as I earlier accepted the Hanseatic…
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Martin Buber
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1953
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[…] I want to tell you about my brother’s ghost.
I had so looked forward to seeing him again: my Schorschi, my Czech brother, who had sent us a few postcards from Theresienstadt. But he wasn’t there…
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Ruth Klüger
Places:
Munich, Germany
(Irvine, United States of America)
Date:
1992
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The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1999