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The Only One in the Town
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Meylekh Snitkever takes the heavy shears and looks at them silently. He holds them in both hands as if to weigh them. Then he shifts his stare to me, the muscles moving in his jaws, which are covered…

Contributor:

Yekhiel Falikman

Places:

USSR (Russia)

Date:

1945

Subjects:

Holocaust, Death, Community, Rebellion

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Reportage
In These Nightmarish Days
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…

Contributor:

Josef Zelkowicz

Places:

Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Children, Death, Rebellion

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Literature
The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…

Contributor:

Zalmen Gradowski

Places:

Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Death, Martyrdom

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage