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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…
Contributor:
Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…
Contributor:
Abraham Lewin
Places:
Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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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 for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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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 for the Occupied Polish Region (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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Everyone appreciated the importance of the work that was being done. They understood how important it was for future generations that a record remain of the tragedy of Polish Jewry. Some realized that…
Contributor:
Emanuel Ringelblum
Places:
Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
Contributor:
Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941