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Goyim in the Ghetto
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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 (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1941

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Jewish quarters, Antisemitism, Nazis, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Literature
Last Will and Testament
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My beloved son and daughter! I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of…

Contributor:

Elhanan Elkes

Places:

Kovno, USSR (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Family, Wills & testaments, Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Wills, Testaments & Bequests
Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
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Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ] The…

Contributor:

Ita Kalish

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1965

Subjects:

Hasidism, Family, Aliyah, Holocaust, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Religion & Theology