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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
Contributor:
Zalman Shazar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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The meaning of the Jewish revolution is contained in one word—independence! Independence for the Jewish people in its homeland! Dependence is not merely political or economic; it is also moral…
Contributor:
David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine
(Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1944
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It is for us, for all of us together,
To assist, to liberate, to rescue brothers,
From capture, from hunger and slaughter—
Rescue them from the vile Nazi oppressor.
Every man and woman whose soul…
Contributor:
Yehuda Karni
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even…
Contributor:
Binyamin Tenenbaum
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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[ . . . ] There are moments when the pile of worn clothing in the center of the rag room bestirs itself suddenly like a volcano and sends a pervasive fear throughout the large room. The…
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Ka-Tzetnik 135633
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1953
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Formations of soldiers faced each other across the floor, taking cover in domino houses and bunkers of colored blocks. Yurik and Kazik lay by their soldiers. [ . . . ]
But Kazik had stopped playing…
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Uri Orlev
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1958
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I was sitting next to Brodsky, and Sonnenshein was sitting opposite us, near the back of the truck. From the moment we had crossed into Germany, something had happened to him. His pipe never left his…
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Hanoch Bartov
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1965
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Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…
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Amos Elon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1971
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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
Contributor:
Julius Margolin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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God, blood has overflowed the soul; among us, the weight of his killed kindred
lies heavy on the head of every living creature.
And it is Sinai, it is Nevo now.
As for the goyim…
Contributor:
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1951