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This 1934 illustration of the Passover story of the four sons features a caricature of the “wicked” son dressed as Hitler.
Contributor:
Arthur Szyk
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1934
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4. [ . . . ] The Gaon of Vilna writes [in his Even Shelemah] that the second chapter of Vayishla? is the chapter of the “footsteps of the Messiah.” When Jacob returned from his…
Contributor:
Elhanan Wasserman
Places:
Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1938
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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
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Well done! Hatsofeh was the first newspaper in Erets Yisrael to react to the indifference of the public in the Yishuv in general and the administration of the Jewish Agency in particular with regard…
Contributor:
Elimelech Neufeld
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1939
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Five years have passed since that mournful 5th of March, which witnessed the so-called election of Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich. It might long have been foreseen and perhaps even averted…
Contributor:
Stephen S. Wise
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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Over and above all else we gather here tonight to dedicate ourselves to the loftiest hopes of our country, to renew unshakeable faith in the victory, early or late, of America and all the United…
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Stephen S. Wise
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1942
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My beloved son and daughter!
I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of…
Contributor:
Elhanan Elkes
Places:
Kovno, USSR (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1943
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As I was crossing Alexanderplatz on the first of April, I noticed a crowd of people gathering near the U-Bahn station at the other end of the square. The loudspeakers blared across the open space,…
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Lisa Fittko
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1992
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I thought of the beautiful angel in the picture that had hung over our bed before the war. Her giant wings hovering over, almost enveloping two children crossing a bridge over a ravine. Please make my…
Contributor:
Anita Lobel
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
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From Hoza Street and Marszalkowska
carts were moving, Jewish carts:
furniture, tables and chairs,
suitcases, bundles
and chests, boxes and bedding,
suits and portraits,
pots, linen and wall…
Contributor:
Wladyslaw Szlengel
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1943