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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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Departure

The rain cleaned off the steep facade of houses; I write upon the white and stony sheet And feel how my tired hand so softly rouses From love poems that always, sweetly, were a cheat. I wake in the…

Just Walk On, Condemned to Die

Just walk on, condemned to die! in woods where winds and catscreams wail, sentence in darkened lines shall fall upon the pines; hunchbacked with fear the road turns pale. Just shrivel up, you…

On Disbelieving Atrocities

We, the screamers, have been at it now for about ten years. We started on the night when the epileptic van der Lubbe set fire to the German Parliament; we said that if you don’t quench those flames at…

Six Months under the Boot

One more incident. A woman shows up at the president’s office and demands the immediate return of her son, who is working in Djelloula, in the Italian sector. It is impossible to reason…

Reflections on V-E Day

Not with surprising suddenness did it come; it did not come—as in the dark days we had hoped it would—as a miraculous flash on a radio, a startling announcement lifting us from the depths of despair…

My Friends from Arnon Street

Arnon Street is not the largest street in Tel Aviv. On the contrary, it is a small street, nearly an alleyway. There is very little traffic. A double-decker bus does not go through it, or any other…

Donna Donna

On a wagon, bound for market There’s a calf with a mournful eye High above her, there’s a swallow Winging swiftly through the sky How the winds are laughing They laugh with all their might Laugh…

Census

Dense crowds proceed at dawn Through Theresienstadt’s still empty streets Five abreast curving around corners into squares. The beast checks if anybody has stumbled. Today God’s chosen people are…