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Some two years ago Nata had been deported from Warsaw to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Now she was free, but still unable to come to grips with life, so newly regained, though in the first breath…
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Mina Tomkiewicz
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1955
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Orellana:[To Leber, about to dig into a towering salad] Hey there, you with the Jewish joke of a face, spit one out for us. That should perk you up. Nobody can tell Jewish jokes like a Jew. And now…
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Samuel Eichelbaum
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1942
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And the resistance, I will be asked: Where is the resistance? Could it be that the heroes are gathering in the shoe factory or in the freight yard, at least a few? Is it possible that at the ghetto’s…
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Jurek Becker
Places:
East Berlin, East Germany (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1969
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[…] Among such divergent opinions, poor Iduzza didn’t dare formulate any view on her own.
To the many mysteries of Authority which frightened her there had now been added the word Aryans, which she…
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Elsa Morante
Places:
Rome, Italy
Date:
1974
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In haste
Quickly came the Americans.
This Bread
These emaciated faces
Of our ancestors in panic
From Hitler
All who are hungry may they walk and fear
All who are in need flee in trembling.
This…
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Nissim ben Shimon
Places:
Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
Date:
1943
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Never, before the war, had Viktor thought about the fact that he was a Jew, that his mother was a Jew. Never had his mother spoken to him about it—neither during his childhood, nor during his years as…
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Vasily Grossman
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1960
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
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Shimon Huberband
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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I was going to publish this novel under another name.
If I sought to hide its true father, it was not because I was ashamed of the son, but because books with my name on them…
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Ariel Dorfman
Places:
Santiago, Chile
Date:
1981
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Now, more than at any time in the history of our people, humor has a place in Jewish life. I was delighted to find the Jewish Publication Society in agreement with me that at the present time…
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Samuel Felix Mendelsohn
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1941
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Madame Perrin told them that her son had died a hero’s death in Normandy as the Germans advanced; she had received permission to visit his grave. She complained at great length about the cost of this…
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Irène Némirovsky
Places:
Paris, German Military Administration in Occupied France (Paris, France)
Date:
1942