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This is perhaps the grimmest, and surely the holiest task we have faced since D-Day. Here before us lie the bodies of…
Contributor:
Roland Gittelsohn
Places:
Iwo Jima, Japan
Date:
1945
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Everyone appreciated the importance of the work that was being done. They understood how important it was for future generations that a record remain of the tragedy of Polish Jewry. Some realized that…
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Emanuel Ringelblum
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Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Night. In the darkest places sparkle traces
Of words. Loaded ships with ideo-glyphs
Sail away. And you, armored in silence and wisdom,
Unwrap word from sense.
Mementos—rain-veiled horizon,
Flickeri…
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Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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When should Jews in one country start protesting about what they perceive as the peril of Jews in another country?
To answer the question, we must first analyze the specific conditions of the…
Contributor:
Henry I. Sobel
Places:
São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1982
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Bearing in mind:
that the course of capitalist development in those states in which Jews reside is not creating for them the kind of economic conditions that could lead to the…
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The Bund
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and…
Contributor:
Rosa Schneiderman
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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We are embarking on the publication of a new journal devoted to the affairs of the workers and masses of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel and the Ottoman Empire. We wish to create a journal…
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Editorial Board of Ha-Aḥdut
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1910
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What are the demands of the organized proletariat on this day [May 1]?
Above all the eight-hour workday. With eight-hour days we would gain work for thousands of unemployed men; we would gain time to…
Contributor:
Abraham Benaroya
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1911
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[ . . . ] The past two years of the Hitler regime (1938–1939) have led many people to the impression that this is the beginning of the destruction of European…
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Simon Dubnow
Places:
Riga, USSR (Riga, Latvia)
Date:
1939
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Let the sun come up today,
Let the morning shine,
All the prayers and plaintive words,
Won’t bring us back to life.
For we whose light is darkened now,
Are covered by the dust,
The bitter tears…
Contributor:
Yakov Rotblit
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1968