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He felt a gnawing sensation. He knew it was hunger. Nothing in his mouth since morning except for those slops, the slops from the Judenrat kitchen, a watery soup that was almost free, just fifty…
Contributor:
Bogdan Wojdowski
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1971
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Spitting poison and frothing at the mouthHe spits, snorts and spluttersAnd writes that I am a butcherA yid and bolshevikJewboy, bacillusA baboon and a SkamandriteThat I sell out the FatherlandThat I…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1934
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When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
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Szymon Draenger
Places:
Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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The events of 1968 therefore came as a shock to me. [ . . . ]
One could of course continue to claim that it was not the people but only those horrible communists, those monstrous rulers, who with…
Contributor:
Adam Michnik
Places:
Polish People’s Republic (Poland)
Date:
1973
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No one paid any attention to Aronek. He took a piece of bread from the cupboard, chose the largest carrot, and went to the neighbors.
At the widow Gitel’s it was warm and clean. From the ceiling hung…
Contributor:
Julian Stryjkowski
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1956
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In every caste system the lower caste occupies a marginal position vis-à-vis the upper caste. The Jews were a marginal element to the Polish nobility. The margin was not isolated, for the Jews could…
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Aleksander Hertz
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Polish People’s Republic (Poland)
Date:
1961
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For the role of scapegoat, the prestidigitators chose Jews.
Rattling around in the recesses of their memory were recollections about how prewar governments in…
Contributor:
Zygmunt Bauman
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1968