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Chanukah in the Ghetto
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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

Places:

Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Hanukkah, Holidays, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, War

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, History, Historical Writing
History of the Viliampole Jewish Ghetto Police
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Sunday, November 1 [1942], it was announced in the order of the day that all policemen must assemble at twenty minutes past two in the premises of the former Slobodka Yeshive for a solemn oath-taking…

Contributor:

Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Music, Jewish identity, Prayer, Holocaust

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
Guidelines for the Study of the Warsaw Ghetto
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    WorkersHandicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)Trade and industry under Aryan trusteesFree professions: doctors, lawyers…

Contributor:

Oyneg Shabes Archive

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Community, Fascism, Jewish identity, Jewish quarters

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts, Political Culture
‘Olam hafukh (The World Upside Down)
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Although the troubles worsened and the city of Padua was in a state of turmoil [see Esther 3:15], there remained hope and divine mercy for the Jews, as not one person in the ghetto was dead or ill…

Contributor:

Abraham Catalano

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

1631

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Plague, Antisemitism, Economic life, Health

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts
A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…

Contributor:

Zelig Kalmanovitch

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Death, Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Genocide

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing