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This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
Contributor:
Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940–1942
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In 1942, Arthur Szyk produced this poster, called Tears of Rage, for a series of pageants mounted by Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht and militant Zionist leader Peter Bergson to protest inaction…
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Arthur Szyk
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1943
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Finally, a town. We ride through the shtetl of Tartakuv, Jews, ruins, cleanliness of a Jewish kind, the Jewish race, little stores.
I am still ill, I’ve still not gotten back on…
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Isaac Babel
Date:
1920
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New and hitherto unknown words have entered our dictionary. These words can now be heard at gatherings, and even more in private conversations, and sometimes we read them in the press. And if, until…
Contributor:
Moshe Beilinson
Places:
Petah Tikvah, Mandate Palestine (Petaẖ Tiqva, Israel)
Date:
1927
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The panel shown here is part of an obelisk that contains a long inscription summarizing the triumphs of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (r. 858–824 BCE) until the thirty-third year of his reign. The…
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Calah, Assyria (Nimrud, Iraq)
Date:
859 BCE–824 BCE
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In the early days of November 1942 (on November 14th) the German army conquered Tunisia with the aim of repelling the Allied Armies (the English and American) in Morocco, Algeria, and western Tunisia…
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Isaac ben Jacob Mamo
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Nabeul, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunisia)
Date:
1942–1943
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One more incident.
A woman shows up at the president’s office and demands the immediate return of her son, who is working in Djelloula, in the Italian sector.
It is impossible to reason…
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Paul Ghez
Places:
Westerbork, Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)
Date:
1943
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D-Day at last. The invasion started about 1 a.m., and I have been listening to the radio since 8. My first reaction, and I’m sure everyone else’s—“Thank God, and God keep…
Contributor:
Helen Jacobus Apte
Places:
Tampa, United States of America
Date:
1944–1945
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Not with surprising suddenness did it come; it did not come—as in the dark days we had hoped it would—as a miraculous flash on a radio, a startling announcement lifting us from the depths of despair…
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A. M. Klein
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1945
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In haste
Quickly came the Americans.
This Bread
These emaciated faces
Of our ancestors in panic
From Hitler
All who are hungry may they walk and fear
All who are in need flee in trembling.
This…
Contributor:
Nissim ben Shimon
Places:
Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
Date:
1943