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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…
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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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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…
Contributor:
Hanna Szenes
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1944
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The criterion for the selection of works to be included in the anthology was above all their lasting literary and artistic value, though here and there poems and short stories were…
Contributor:
Khone Shmeruk
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1964
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I am a stranger.
Since no one dares approach me
I would be girded with towers
That wear their steep and stone-gray caps
Aloft in clouds.
The brazen key you will not find
That locks the musty…
Contributor:
Gertrud Kolmar
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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The rain cleaned off the steep facade of houses;
I write upon the white and stony sheet
And feel how my tired hand so softly rouses
From love poems that always, sweetly, were a cheat.
I wake in the…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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Someone gathered rich apples, rich corn,
Grown of your heart and your brain,
And in me, as a loft, has stored
Some of the fruit and grain.
The loft smells sweet with its store:
The corn for making…
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Joseph Leftwich
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1932
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The slow and green river that winds through
the blanched street of the Jewish Quarter
kept watch over your agony.
From my old table
I used to see him
approach your windows with
restless eyes. And as…
Contributor:
César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933