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Nina Gitler poem

Document | Accession Number: 2014.369.1

Consists of one typed poem, dated February 1942, entitled "Kadysz," written by Nina Gitler in the Warsaw Ghetto. In the poem, Gitler, who was sixteen-years-old, complains of hearing that American Jews are saying Kaddish for the Jews of Europe, though they are still alive and suffering. The poem was collected and identified by Simon Weber, the long-serving editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, and was published in the Forward.

Date
creation:  1942 February
Language
Polish
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Extent
1 folder
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lillian Weber Silver

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Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Lillian Weber Silver donated this poem to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. She discovered the poem in her late father's papers.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2019-12-05 21:22:40
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