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He was the last. Truly the last.
Such yellowness was bitter and blinding
Like the sun’s tear shattered on stone.
That was his true color.
And how easily he climbed, and how high.
Certainly, climbing…
Contributor:
Pavel Friedman
Places:
Terezin, Czechoslovakia (Terezin, Czech Republic)
Date:
1942
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Scenes from everyday life are scarcely to be found in these pages. Rather you will feel that you have been transported for a while to some far-off, exotic country where different flowers grow and…
Contributor:
Jirí Langer
Places:
Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1937
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The end of summer is approaching and we can feel it. The days are still hot, but in the evening, there is a strange smell, the smell of leaves decaying and smoke, the smell of autumn…
Contributor:
Gonda Redlich
Places:
Theresienstadt, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)
Date:
1944
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I was born on 19 February 1758 in Nový Bydžov [in Bohemia] of well-to-do parents who destined me at birth to be a rabbi, a common practice among the Israelites then. For at that time, when all…
Contributor:
Peter Beer
Places:
Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1839
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As for myself, I was constantly going back in my studies as well as in manners and conduct. After a while, my father decided to send me to Prague, which was a day’s journey. My older brother was also…
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Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685