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Call to Arms
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Vilna ghetto partisan leader Abba Kovner publicly predicted the Final Solution weeks before the Wannsee conference finalized the Nazis’ plans to systematically murder millions of Jews.

Contributor:

Abba Kovner

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Rebellion, Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Martyrdom, Death, Apocalypse, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Apocalyptic
Abba Kovner
God Hid His Face
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All roads led to death, Every road. All winds breathed betrayal, Every wind. In every doorway, vicious dogs barked, In all the doorways. All the waters laughed at us, All the waters. Every night grew…

Contributor:

Reyzl Zychlinsky

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1948

Subjects:

Apocalypse, Jewish identity, Holocaust, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry