Chronicle of a Single Day

Leyb Goldin

1941

Bread, bread. The abundance of it dazzles your eyes. In the windows, on the stalls, in hands, in baskets. I won’t be able to hold out if I can’t grab a bite or bread-stuff. “Grab? You don’t look suspicious,” says he, my murderer. “They’ll let you near, they’ll even put it in your hand. They’ll trust you. They can see you aren’t one of the grabbers…

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Leyb Goldin

1906–1942

Leyb Goldin was born in Warsaw and grew up in poverty. First active in the city’s communist youth organizations, he joined the Bund in 1936. A translator as well as a critic and essayist, Goldin published in the Bundist underground press during World War II. His autobiographical “Chronicle of a Single Day” was included in the Oyneg Shabes archive, of which he was a member. He perished in the great deportation in the summer of 1942.

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