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Looking at her, the coat and everything else seemed to him to be as clear and clean as the sky.
He had to step across the old man’s mattress.
He knew he would speak to him.
“Look after Anne’s things,”…
Contributor:
Arnošt Lustig
Places:
Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1962
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He felt a gnawing sensation. He knew it was hunger. Nothing in his mouth since morning except for those slops, the slops from the Judenrat kitchen, a watery soup that was almost free, just fifty…
Contributor:
Bogdan Wojdowski
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1971
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After the war with Spain came another war. The postman, though, he stopped coming. Well, actually, he didn’t stop. What I mean is, he didn’t stop in. Papa always waited for him by the balcony, he’d be…
Contributor:
Mauricio Rosencof
Places:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Date:
2000
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Yom Kippur, when the narrow alleys of the shulhoyf
cradle the small shtibls, pious and scared,
householders hurry with their taleisim
and old men shuffle along in their socks—
I feel the narrow…
Contributor:
Chaim Grade
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, mid-20th century
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An elegy to the Jews deported from the Warsaw ghetto from a Jew hiding on the “Aryan” side of the city.
Contributor:
Rachel Auerbach
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943