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Learn about their history, culture and their current situation.

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Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

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Papa Says to “find our own courage,”

But I don’t see any signs of mine. (161).

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“The noise is getting louder. I think of all the times in

my life I have had to worry and wonder and wait for

somebody else to save me, and his time I know it is

up to me.

I am brave, I remind myself. “ (203)

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Written In Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car

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Written In Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car

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Dan Pagis - survivor of the Holocaust.

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Poetry from a survivor of the Holocaust.

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Hear two testimonies about their experience in the Lodz Ghetto

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גדעון הואזנר

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Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Daily Life in the Lodz Ghetto

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Holocaust survivors Shimon Srebrnik and Tola Walach Melzer describe their experiences in the Lodz ghetto. The video is an excerpt from the film "Life in the Lodz Ghetto" from the Holocaust History Museum in Yad Vashem.

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Hear the music of the ghetto, see the people, and learn about the culture that formed.

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The songs of the Lodz ghetto presented here are from the repertoire of the street songs of the ghetto. Street entertainers, who wrote new lyrics to Yiddish folksongs that reflected the events taking place around them, performed the songs in the Lodz ghetto.

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“And for a moment I remember the

old Dora,

who was popular and happy

and talked about boys.

Now I look at my thin, weary sister …” (102)

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“He saw our yellow stars!” Papa says" (219).

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Papa says Mother is a noble woman.

He tells me,

“From pain your mother gave you life,

through pain she continues to give” (49)

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But I am alive and still here.

Am I lucky?

Surely not as lucky as the children

Who are not Jews (162).

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“I shove my blue scrap of fabric

into my shirt pocket

and put on my shoes.

They are too tight,

But I can still walk in them.

I get up and start walking.

Are these my feet climbing up to the top of the stairs?

Can this by my hand pushing the door open?” (166)

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“I realize later that he has learned to be

very, very quiet

so as not to disturb anyone

especially Nazis” (125)