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Not far from Lódz is a small town called Brzezhin. It has been a town of tailors from the beginning of time. When it was under Russian rule, Brzezhin was a center for manufacturing cheap clothes for…
Contributor:
Henryk Erlich
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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How and with what will you fill
Your cup on the day you’re free?
Will you in your joy still
Hear the scream of the past
Where the skulls of chained days
Clot in bottomless pits?
Searching…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1943
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Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…
Contributor:
Isaiah Spiegel
Places:
Republic of Poland (Poland)
Date:
1946
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Always, by the time the humid, breathless, summer night lifted its veil and a quiet, rosy dawn emerged, when some glimmers of soft, opaque light began to filter through the dried muddy, dusty window…
Contributor:
Dovid Mitzmacher
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926