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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 for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Family, Afterlife, Death, Wills & testaments

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Wills, Testaments & Bequests
Terezín Diary
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The end of summer is approaching and we can feel it. The days are still hot, but in the evening, there is a strange smell, the smell of leaves decaying and smoke, the smell of autumn…

Contributor:

Gonda Redlich

Places:

Theresienstadt, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Family, Antisemitism, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
The Letters That Never Came
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After the war with Spain came another war. The postman, though, he stopped coming. Well, actually, he didn’t stop. What I mean is, he didn’t stop in. Papa always waited for him by the balcony, he’d be…

Contributor:

Mauricio Rosencof

Places:

Montevideo, Uruguay

Date:

2000

Subjects:

Holocaust, Family, Adolescence, Jewish quarters, Propaganda, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries, (Auto)biography