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Consider Iwo Jima
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This is perhaps the grimmest, and surely the holiest task we have faced since D-Day. Here before us lie the bodies of…

Contributor:

Roland Gittelsohn

Places:

Iwo Jima, Japan

Date:

1945

Subjects:

War, Martyrdom, Politics, Death, Activism

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
On Our Movement in These Days
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Despair before loss. The first reaction in relation to our world movement and its status in wartime was among many…

Contributor:

Moshe Kroneh

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Zionism, Antisemitism, Violence, Martyrdom, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…

Contributor:

Zalmen Gradowski

Places:

Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Death, Martyrdom

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
We Polish Jews
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“All right,” someone will say, “granted you are a Pole. But in that case, why ‘we jews’?” To which I answer: because of blood “Then racialism again?” No, not racialism at all. Quite the contrary. Th…

Contributor:

Julian Tuwim

Places:

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Holocaust, Martyrdom, Death, Satire

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Firsthand Accounts, Speeches