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God Hid His Face
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All roads led to death, Every road. All winds breathed betrayal, Every wind. In every doorway, vicious dogs barked, In all the doorways. All the waters laughed at us, All the waters. Every night grew…

Contributor:

Reyzl Zychlinsky

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1948

Subjects:

Apocalypse, Jewish identity, Holocaust

Categories:

Poetry
The Pit and the Trap: A Chronicle of Survival
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Today is Wednesday, February 17, 1943. Exactly twelve weeks have passed since we went into hiding here at Felek’s. Twelve weeks are eighty-four days and, if my arithmetic is correct, 2016 hours. That…

Contributor:

Leyb Rochman

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1949

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Surrealism, Refugees

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
A Yiddish Writer Who Writes in French
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I belong to that peculiar generation of Jews who have the duty to speak Yiddish, my mother tongue, in a tongue at once familiar and “foreign”—French. Though Yiddish is still used as a vernacular…

Contributor:

Myriam Anissimov

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1995

Subjects:

Yiddish, Holocaust, Jewish identity, Jewish languages

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Todesfuge (1944–45)
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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night we drink and we drink we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped A man lives in…

Contributor:

Paul Celan

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1952

Subjects:

Holocaust, Fascism, Jewish identity, Torture

Categories:

Poetry