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Kibbutz Netzer Sereni was established by Holocaust survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp. In fact, its original name was Kibbutz Buchenwald. It is now named for Enzo Sereni, an Italian…
Contributor:
Batia Lichansky
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1965–1968
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Snow has fallen, with no light. A month
has gone by now or two, since autumn in its monkish cowl
brought tidings my way, a leaf from Ukrainian slopes:
“Remember it’s wintry here too, for the…
Contributor:
Paul Celan
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Tabarasti, Kingdom of Romania (Tabarasti, Romania)
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1943
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Trees cry for rain
And mountains for air.
So cry my eyes
For you, dear Mother;
So cry my eyes
For you, dear Mother.
I turn and I ask what will become of me.
In Polish lands
I am destined to die.
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Contributor:
Koro Saloniko
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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He was the last. Truly the last.
Such yellowness was bitter and blinding
Like the sun’s tear shattered on stone.
That was his true color.
And how easily he climbed, and how high.
Certainly, climbing…
Contributor:
Pavel Friedman
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Terezin, Czechoslovakia (Terezin, Czech Republic)
Date:
1942
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our lightless awful days are passing
splinters of memories prick our brains
daily our Creator beats us using both hands
we are his dry weeds husked to the core
for us fire is no fire for us it is…
Contributor:
Stefánia Mándy
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1944
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Garden of Stones, a garden of trees growing from stone, was planted in 2003 by Goldsworthy, Holocaust survivors, and their families at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on a second-story rooftop. The…
Contributor:
Andy Goldsworthy
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2003