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Letter to His Son
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How good and agreeable is it, when brothers live in one house, and how much more father and son Peace to my beloved, dear and darling son, whose soul is bound to my soul, the intimate friend, the…

Contributor:

Eliezer Morawczyk

Places:

Tymbarg, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tymbark, Poland)

Date:

1588

Subjects:

Family, Children, Parenthood, Plague, Migration

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Last Testament
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With zeal and zest I threw myself into the work to help assemble archive materials. I was entrusted to be the custodian, I hid the material. Besides me, no one knew. I confided only in my friend Hersh…

Contributor:

Israel Lichtenstein

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Afterlife, Holocaust, Death, Jewish identity, Parenthood

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, (Auto)biography
A Household of Eight
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Household of eight. Beds are two. When it gets late, What do they do? Three with father, Three with mother: Limbs Over each other. When it’s night And they go to bed, Mother begins To wish she…

Contributor:

Avrom Reisen

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1899

Subjects:

Poverty, Family, Parenthood, Death, Life cycle

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
I Speak to You Openly, My Child
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(Short Poems in Prose)

Contributor:

Yosef Kirman

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Parenthood, Christian-Jewish relations, Food and drink, Animals

Categories:

Poetry, Literature