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...How doth the City sit solitary, 
That was full of people!
How is she become a widow!
She that was great among the Nations,
And princess among the provinces,
How is she become tributary!
My eyes do fail with tears,
For the destruction of my people;

Arise, cry out in the night,
Pour out thine heart before the Lord,
Lift up thy hands toward Him
For the life of thy young children,
That faint for hunger
In the top of every street...
Lamentations of Jeremiah--
1:1; 2:11; 2:19.

 

Memoirs

Memories of Pre-war Piotrkow

Once There Was a Town, by Elazar Prashker; an eloquent recollection of Jewish life in Piotrkow before the Holocaust, in seven parts (from the Piotrkow Trybunalski Yizkor Book Project).

Survivor Testimonies

I Believe, by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Israel's Chief Rabbi;  excerpt from a television program, which he entitled "Ani Maamin" (I believe), recalling his life as a child in the Nazi hell (from the Piotrkow Trybunalski Yizkor Book Project). 
Australian Memories of the Holocaust, by Franka Berk (neeŽ Kenigsztajn),  b. 1924, survivor of the Piotrkow ghetto and member of the resistance.  
Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor, by Charles Kotkowsky, survivor of the Piotrkow ghetto; the story of the ghetto in Piotrkow,  published by the Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies.
Sabina Szwarc (b. 1923), survivor of the Piotrkow ghetto.

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