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Letter to Anka
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19 August 1943 Today, dear Anka, is the anniversary of your Golgotha, tomorrow the anniversary of your death. A year has passed since I last saw you. You see, Anka, I do not believe in God and never…

Contributor:

Calel Perechodnik

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Death, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Family, Afterlife

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Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Wills, Testaments & Bequests
A Letter to the Polish Premier
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I take the liberty of addressing to you my last words, and through you to the Polish Government and the Polish people, to the Governments and the peoples of the Allied States—to the conscience of the…

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Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym

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Date:

1942

Subjects:

Will & testament, Death, Holocaust, Fascism, Rebellion

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Firsthand Accounts, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Letters
Last Will and Testament
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O most high and sovereign Creator of heaven and earth, not one of Your countless creatures can resist Your will. Without it neither men nor birds nor brutish beasts could live upon the earth. Unless…

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Luis de Carvajal

Places:

Spanish Empire (Nuevo León, Mexico)

Date:

1596

Subjects:

Conversos, Martyrdom, Death, Ethics, Afterlife

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Ethics
Sefer ha-tsava’ah (Book of the Testament): Rituals on Dying and Mourning
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My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…

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Naphtali ha-Kohen Katz

Places:

Russian Empire (Ukraine)

Date:

ca. 1718

Subjects:

Will & testament, Death, Women, Family, Finance

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Firsthand Accounts