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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…

Contributor:

Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym

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Date:

1942

Subjects:

Wills & testaments, Holocaust, Fascism, Rebellion, Death, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Letters
In These Nightmarish Days
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…

Contributor:

Josef Zelkowicz

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Litzmannstadt, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Children, Rebellion, Death, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Justyna’s Diary
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While imprisoned by the Nazis and awaiting her death, Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger recalls her last supper with other resistance leaders in the Vilna ghetto.

Contributor:

Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger

Places:

Kraków, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Rebellion, War, Jewish quarters, Sabbath, Holocaust

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Photo of three Jewish women wearing badges identifying them as Jewish, in the Vilna ghetto.
The Periodic Table
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There was a mysterious jar on one of the shelves. It contained about twenty gray, hard, colorless, tasteless little rods and did not have a label. This was very strange, because it was a German…

Contributor:

Primo Levi

Places:

Turin, Italy

Date:

1975

Subjects:

Holocaust, Hunger, Rebellion, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography