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T.J.:Why don’t you get the lead out of your can and do something for once?Coney [to Finch]:You finish your map.Finch:It’s finished, Coney.Coney:Well, let T. J. Rockefeller do something besides blowing…
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Arthur Laurents
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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Jew, you’ve yelled at him, seething with rage.
Jew, you’ve yelled at him, seeking to shame him.
Jew, no better word can you find to defame him.
Jew, no better word to vent your disdain.
For him it…
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Carlos Grünberg
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1940
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He was the last. Truly the last.
Such yellowness was bitter and blinding
Like the sun’s tear shattered on stone.
That was his true color.
And how easily he climbed, and how high.
Certainly, climbing…
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Pavel Friedman
Places:
Terezin, Czechoslovakia (Terezin, Czech Republic)
Date:
1942
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Still, still, let us be still.
Graves grow here.
Planted by the enemy,
they blossom to the sky.
All the roads lead to Ponar,
and none returns.
Somewhere father disappeared,
disappeared with all our…
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Shmerke Kaczerginski
Date:
1942
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Now in the suburbs and the falling light
I followed him, and now down sandy road
Whiter than bone-dust, through the sweet
Curdle of fields, where the plums
Dropped with their load of ripeness, one by…
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Stanley Kunitz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1942
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At home I have a blue piano,
I, who cannot play a note.
It stands in the gloom of the cellar door,
now that the world has grown coarse.
The four hands of the stars play there
—the moonwife sang…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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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…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Date:
1943
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our lightless awful days are passing
splinters of memories prick our brains
daily our Creator beats us using both hands
we are his dry weeds husked to the core
for us fire is no fire for us it is…
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Stefánia Mándy
Places:
Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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“All right,” someone will say, “granted you are a Pole. But in that case, why ‘we jews’?” To which I answer: because of blood “Then racialism again?” No, not racialism at all. Quite the contrary.
Th…
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Julian Tuwim
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1944
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Before the custodians of the purity of the Hebrew language begin to tear their hair out in protest of the so-called indecent acts committed herein, in full view, upon the…
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Dan Ben-Amotz, Netiva Ben-Yehuda
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1972