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Dense crowds proceed at dawn
Through Theresienstadt’s still empty streets
Five abreast curving around corners into squares.
The beast checks if anybody has stumbled.
Today God’s chosen people are…
Contributor:
Else Dormitzer
Places:
Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)
Date:
1943
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So since we are in the midst of writing a song,
We will write also about the destruction of the holy community of Kremzir,
Even though this happened five years before,
In the year 1643, on the 9th of…
Contributor:
Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
Places:
Kremzir, Holy Roman Empire (Kroměříž, Czech Republic)
Date:
1648
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This is November
Season of mills.
Wind of the black early morning services.
Cemetery
And thousandnightliness
Of the childish little candles,
And their fear.
Trudging now
Through the…
Contributor:
Franz Werfel
Places:
Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1917
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Whoever reads it, his heart laughs.
About the invasion of the Swedes
Therefore you should buy [this booklet] / And don’t run away from it.
Thus you will see / What signs and wonders took place in…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1649
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In the year 5473 [1713] since the creation of, the world, from the moment it began the plague fell upon us because of our many sins. In the community we still had no one ill nor bad air in the country…
Contributor:
Moses Eisenstadt
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1713