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The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando
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A day passed, and then a second and a third. Wednesday came, the ultimate deadline for the transport’s arrival. There were two obvious reason for the delay. First, it appeared that in addition to…

Contributor:

Zalmen Gradowski

Places:

Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Jewish quarters, Martyrdom, Death, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
The Crisis of Jewish Colonization in Argentina
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Published after his visit to the Jewish Colonization Association colonies in Argentina in 1908, Chasanowitch’s report is a scathing critique of the administration’s treatment of farmers.

Contributor:

Leon Chasanowitch

Places:

Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)

Date:

1910

Subjects:

Colonialism, Jewish quarters, Antisemitism, Christian-Jewish relations, Migration, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Among Our Distant Brethren
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(Continued from issue 76 [of Ha-Tsefira])The commandment of hospitality is well-developed in our city, and particularly in the mellah. But emissaries from the kollelim in the “Four Lands” stay with…

Contributor:

Isaac Ibn Ya‘ish

Places:

Essouira, French Protectorate in Morocco (Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco)

Date:

1891

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Education, Jewish identity, Community, Journalism

Categories:

Reportage, Journalism