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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
Contributor:
Lev Levanda
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871–1873
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Awake, my people! How long will you slumber?
The night has passed, the sun shines bright.
Awake, lift up your eyes, look around you—
Acknowledge, I pray you, your time and your place. . . .
The…
Contributor:
Judah Leib Gordon
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1866
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Vilna ghetto partisan leader Abba Kovner publicly predicted the Final Solution weeks before the Wannsee conference finalized the Nazis’ plans to systematically murder millions of Jews.
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Abba Kovner
Places:
Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1942
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My beloved son and daughter!
I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of…
Contributor:
Elhanan Elkes
Places:
Kovno, USSR (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1943
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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…
Contributor:
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Places:
Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1942
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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…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1943
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Where everyone travels, in the middle of the road,
there is a wonderful flower.
It’s been lying there and rotting for several days now.
The wind blows it around,
and it cries out and weeps a great…
Contributor:
Elyokum Tsunzer
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
Date Unknown, 19th-early 20th century
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With regard to beggars who rise up and roam through the countryside (Job 1:7), walking through its length and breadth (Genesis 13:17). They come from a faraway land (Joshua 9:9) and spread out over…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
Places:
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
Date:
1623
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Regarding this recent occurrence of some men going and walking around the Galilee and Judea [the region of Lithuania] and preaching in public without the permission or authorization of the local rabbi…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
Places:
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
Date:
1667
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On the twenty-fourth day of the counting [of the Omer] may there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. The handmaids of the emperor’s house would sing his praises: “no eye-shadow…
Contributor:
Solomon Luria
Places:
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
Date:
Mid–16th Century