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Letter to Anka
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19 August 1943 Today, dear Anka, is the anniversary of your Golgotha, tomorrow the anniversary of your death. A year has passed since I last saw you. You see, Anka, I do not believe in God and never…

Contributor:

Calel Perechodnik

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Death, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Family, Afterlife

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Wills, Testaments & Bequests
Song of the Murdered Jewish People
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And thus it came to pass, and this was the beginning . . . Heavens tell me, why? Tell me, why this, O why? What have we done to merit such disgrace? The earth is dumb and…

Contributor:

Yitshak Katzenelson

Places:

Vittel, German Military Administration in Occupied France (Vittel, France)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Afterlife, Holocaust, Theology, Death, Apostasy

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Theology
Last Testament
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With zeal and zest I threw myself into the work to help assemble archive materials. I was entrusted to be the custodian, I hid the material. Besides me, no one knew. I confided only in my friend Hersh…

Contributor:

Israel Lichtenstein

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Afterlife, Holocaust, Death, Jewish identity, Parenthood

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, (Auto)biography