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Six Months under the Boot
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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…

Contributor:

Paul Ghez

Places:

Westerbork, Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

War, Antisemitism, Jewish identity, Community, Violence

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Humor & Satire
The Diary of a Young Girl
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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

Places:

Amsterdam, Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Jewish identity, War, Antisemitism, Women, Adolescence

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Selections from the Kurant
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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…

Contributor:

Moses Bar Abraham

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1686–1687

Subjects:

Antisemitism, War, Jewish identity, Cochini, Crime

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Journalism