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One more incident.
A woman shows up at the president’s office and demands the immediate return of her son, who is working in Djelloula, in the Italian sector.
It is impossible to reason…
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Paul Ghez
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(Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)
Date:
1943
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Dearest Kitty,
Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters…
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Anne Frank
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(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1944
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1703
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It is necessary to remember that hatred is constantly in human society directed and discharged against persons who could not possibly have been guilty of causing it.…
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Peretz (Friedrich) Bernstein
Places:
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1926
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[1742] In the week when we read the portion Toledoth of the Pentateuch a proclamation was issued by the…
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Abraham Ḥayim Braatbard
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1742–1745
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Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…
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Moses Bar Abraham
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1686–1687
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Max Liebermann
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1876
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After having arranged for fresh provisions and all kinds of refreshments, we set sail again, sailing away from land. Due to the wind’s silence, we proceeded into the sea without sailing, drifting for…
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Abraham Levie
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1750
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Persecution because of a person’s religious observance is reprehensible, even despicable, though still somewhat understandable. What is understandable—I am not saying: justifiable—is that zealots who…
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Mozes Henriquez Pimentel
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1891
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2. What was it that made for the peculiar position of the Jews in the Middle Ages and later, until emancipation came along? It was the ghetto, we are told and told again, which was at the root of…
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Max Weinreich
Places:
The Hague, Netherlands
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1967