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  "text": "The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame.",
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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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