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Far, far from the paved roads and broad ways, far, far from the ordinary shtetls, stood isolated villages that had a different sky over them and a different sun.
The God of heaven in His mercy made…
Contributor:
Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…
Contributor:
S. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…
Contributor:
Avraham Levite
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1945
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An elegy to the Jews deported from the Warsaw ghetto from a Jew hiding on the “Aryan” side of the city.
Contributor:
Rachel Auerbach
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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I am in hiding in a loft over a stable, in a village, with good people. The risk of death hovers over me, as it does over all Jews these days, and the slightest lapse of vigilance on my…
Contributor:
Baruch Milch
Places:
General Government (Poland)
Date:
1943