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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…
Contributor:
Emanuel Ringelblum
Places:
Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…
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Peretz Opoczynski
Places:
Warsaw, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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Great men were once able to perform great miracles.
When the ghetto of Prague was under attack and marauders wanted to rape the women, roast the children, and murder everyone, when it seemed that all…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1893
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…
Contributor:
Zalmen Gradowski
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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Good night, wide world.
Big, stinking world.
Not you, but I, slam the gate.
In my long robe,
With my flaming, yellow patch,
With my proud gait,
At my own command—
I return to the ghetto.
Wipe out…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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Every day they took from us whatever their hearts desired. They said to us, “We are needed to protect you from the mob.” We had no choice but to believe them. We had to take being cheated. They…
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Elhanan Helen
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1616
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Published after his visit to the Jewish Colonization Association colonies in Argentina in 1908, Chasanowitch’s report is a scathing critique of the administration’s treatment of farmers.
Contributor:
Leon Chasanowitch
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910