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All those things whose names I hushed
in secret, I meet in the night’s abyss.
I face the dark. Alert, remembering. Silently,
again I’ll let you in—my friends, my beloved dead.
And here you are as…
Contributor:
Leah Goldberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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My feet walk the streets of this blessed city,
Only yesterday full of faithful adherents of Sinai.
My eyes do not have the courage to look up.
The bitterness of my soul is great, O Holy God!
I…
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Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia
Places:
Salonika, Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1943
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The dreadful angel in me is invisible
today, his screeching almost still.
You startle at its whisper. Is it
someone come to pay a visit
or a grasshopper tapping at the sill?
It’s he. Oh, he is…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1943
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As you die there in agony, brother,
Don’t be calling your comrades in vain.
Let me warm my hands on your body,
Make good use of the blood from your veins.
Stop crying, stop groaning, don’t be a…
Contributor:
Ion Degen
Places:
USSR (Soviet Union)
Date:
1944
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After a long stay in the city, I was glad to go out, to travel as far as the Sharon, full of eagerness for fields, colors, green light. But to my misfortune, I fell into a crowded bus, crammed…
Contributor:
Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. He did what was displeasing to the Lord, following the abhorrent practices of the nations that the…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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To be a Jew in the twentieth century
Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse,
Wishing to be invisible, you choose
Death of the spirit, the stone insanity.
Accepting, take full life. Full agonies:
Your…
Contributor:
Muriel Rukeyser
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1944
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Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart’s secret places.
Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating.
Blessed is the…
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Hanna Szenes
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1944
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Certainly, the collective will of diaspora Jews is assured neither of success nor of perennial life. It is situated in history, subject to the erosion and constraints of history, equally conditioned…
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Richard Marienstras
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1973
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…
Contributor:
Primo Levi
Places:
Turin, Italy
Date:
1946