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  "text": "\"Don't be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.\"\n\nI exploded:\n\n\"What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?\"\n\nHis cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily:\n\n\"I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.\"",
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      "text": "\"Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be celebrated and sanctified...\" whispered my father.\n\nFor the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?",
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      "text": "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.\n\nNever shall I forget that smoke.\n\nNever shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.\n\nNever shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.\n\nNever shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.\n\nNever shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.\n\nNever shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.\n\nNever.",
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      "text": "Most people thought we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.",
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