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Letters from Westerbork
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Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…

Contributor:

Etty Hillesum

Places:

General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Poland)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Holocaust, Community, Jewish identity, Death

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Ashkenazic Funeral: Carrying the Body to the Grave
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz’s Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany), published in…

Contributor:

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1748

Subjects:

Life cycle, Community, Burial, Cemetery, Death

Categories:

Print & book culture
Print image in three panels: the top panel shows groups of men and women in courtyard outside of building, the bottom left panel shows people around body in coffin, and the bottom right panel shows people outside building.