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When they begin to plaster the walls
With freshly printed proclamations,
When black print sounds alarm
Calling “To the People” and “To Soldiers”
And ruffians and adolescents
Are taken in by their…
Contributor:
Julian Tuwim
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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The events of 1968 therefore came as a shock to me. [ . . . ]
One could of course continue to claim that it was not the people but only those horrible communists, those monstrous rulers, who with…
Contributor:
Adam Michnik
Places:
Polish People’s Republic (Poland)
Date:
1973
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Jews, let us be cheerful!
It won’t be long, don’t fear—
The war will soon be over.
Their end is very near.
Cheerful, don’t you worry.
Don’t go around so sad.
Have both hope and patience—
Bear things…
Contributor:
Mordecai Gebirtig
Places:
Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1940
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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
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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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 (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943