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Saturday is the worst of the week. Whenever I touch anything on this day, straightway there comes a voice: Don’t do that, today it’s a sin.
“Sin?” I ask.
Says Mother: “Sin is that for which the Good…
Contributor:
Károly Pap
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1937
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All the Jewish children’s homes and live-in kindergartens that Robi Singer had been attending since the age of four had something in common. Besides a birth certificate and vaccination papers, they…
Contributor:
György Dalos
Places:
Vienna, Austria
Date:
1990
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A Holocaust survivor grapples with the question: should one bring children into the world after experiencing the horrors of the death camps?
Contributor:
Imre Kertész
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1990
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My precious heart, my handsome soldier son,
I write this letter with my blood to you.
Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling
our world has turned red of a fiery hue.
The big decisive battle…
Contributor:
Zseni Várnai
Places:
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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our lightless awful days are passing
splinters of memories prick our brains
daily our Creator beats us using both hands
we are his dry weeds husked to the core
for us fire is no fire for us it is…
Contributor:
Stefánia Mándy
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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Grandfather scurries from cupboard to cupboard in his black coat; he looks in every corner, checking for bread crumbs in my treasure drawer, under my crystals and shells. He rummages through…
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György Konrád
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1982
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(Genesis 4:8)
for D. G., my uncle
Abel, brother, yesterday the primal crime awoke me:
I had murdered your snow-white dreams and damned I was urging myself
endlessly on down the night-darkening…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
Places:
Liberec, Czechoslovakia (Liberec, Czech Republic)
Date:
1928