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Dense crowds proceed at dawn Through Theresienstadt’s still empty streets Five abreast curving around corners into squares. The beast checks if anybody has stumbled. Today God’s chosen people are…

Contributor:

Else Dormitzer

Places:

Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Holocaust, Theology, Violence, Jewish quarters, Death

Categories:

Poetry, Literature
Ben-Oni (Son of Sorrow)
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I do not lift my supplicating hands, O King, O Lord, O Father, yon on high, To You whose throne dwells in the starry lands, I neither plead nor yet Your might defy. I do not ask of You to end my…

Contributor:

Siegfried Kapper

Places:

Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1846

Subjects:

Theology, Diaspora, Zionism

Categories:

Literature, Poetry