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Todesfuge (1944–45)
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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night we drink and we drink we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped A man lives in…

Contributor:

Paul Celan

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1952

Subjects:

Holocaust, Fascism, Jewish identity, Death, Torture

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
The Jewish Census (Judenzählung)
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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…

Contributor:

Arnold Zweig

Places:

France, France

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Antisemitism, War, Military, Jewish identity, Death

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts