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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps
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I weep, and am amazed. I have seen death so many times and have controlled myself. Have experienced so much torment, disgrace, and humiliation, and…

Contributor:

Herman Kruk

Places:

Vilnius, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Passover, Genocide, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Poetry
Non omnis moriar
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“Even if you kill us, we will leave traces,” insists the poet. Poems such as this one affirm the power of humanity even in the midst of atrocities committed by neighbors.

Contributor:

Zuzanna Ginczanka

Places:

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Crime, Memory, Dress, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Memoirs & diaries
Nights
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All those things whose names I hushed in secret, I meet in the night’s abyss. I face the dark. Alert, remembering. Silently, again I’ll let you in—my friends, my beloved dead. And here you are as…

Contributor:

Leah Goldberg

Places:

Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Mourning, Family, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Memoirs & diaries