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  "text": "Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm.\n\nBlessed be God's name?\n\nWhy, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?",
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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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