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The refugees sat with their spoons halfway to their mouths, apparently listening with great seriousness, and trying with all their might not to burst into gales of laughter. The long, skinny lady left…
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Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1944
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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
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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He had houses made for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the Ark of God, and pitched a tent for it. Then David gave orders that…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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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
Places:
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
Places:
Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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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His [Asa’s] son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king, and took firm hold of Israel. He stationed troops in all the fortified towns of Judah, and stationed garrisons throughout the land of…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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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
Places:
Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1943