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The Oppressor Chmiel, may his name be blotted out, heard that many Jews had gathered in the holy community of Nemirow, and that they had a great deal of…
Contributor:
Nathan Hannover
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)
Date:
1653
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[This testimony was] given by rape victim Rivke Shif. She is the wife of Shabse Shif, a shoemaker specializing in shoe uppers. (He lived at 11…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903
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You have a simplistic picture of a pogrom. A well-off and respected shopkeeper lives a proud and happy life. All at once, angels of destruction pop out of nowhere and within minutes they…
Contributor:
Alexander Kapel
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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We have awoken from a horrible nightmare that I believed myself unable to describe to you.
The sack of the Mellah [the Jewish quarter of the city] by the mutinous Sherifian troops began at midday on…
Contributor:
Avraham Elmaleh
Places:
Fez, French Protectorate in Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1912
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Paris, Tuesday, May 25, 1926, half past three in the afternoon. The car in which I had suddenly found myself honked and barely managed to drive through the dense throng, with people screaming on all…
Contributor:
Sholem Schwartzbard
Places:
Berchères La Maingot, France (Berchères-la-Maingot, France)
Date:
1933