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When first touched by memory, I found myself already in the midst of [ . . . ] ominous twilights which came intermittently, in series, and have stayed with me as the keenest memory of childhood.
Our…
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Judd L. Teller
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1949
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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Let me be frank: I was there, but as a Zionist. I thought Judaism and Zionism in particular needed to be represented in some way. It was a grand idea, a matter of defending a supreme liberty. Jews…
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Joseph Marco Baruch
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Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)
Date:
1897
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I am in hiding in a loft over a stable, in a village, with good people. The risk of death hovers over me, as it does over all Jews these days, and the slightest lapse of vigilance on my…
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Baruch Milch
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General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Poland)
Date:
1943
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At five o’clock in the morning our commanders stormed into the dormitories to wake us. No morning gymnastics. We are in a high state of alert. Our comrades who were on night duty report…
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Uri Avnery
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1948
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1824 years from the Destruction. Issue no. 36The rumor about military service for the Jews in our land comes in every European newspaper, in almost the same form as when we presented it in an earlier…
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1893
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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…
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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
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1945
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City of Savannah
Sheftall Sheftall of the said city, being duly sworn, saith:
That some time in the latter part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, or the beginning of…
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Sheftall Sheftall
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Savannah, United States of America
Date:
1832
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Behold, from the time of our settlement in the city that the Lord has chosen, which He had desired for His habitation (Psalms 132:13), we heard your voice and obeyed, for you stand in the breach…
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1521