Nina Gitler poem
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lillian Weber Silver
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.
Scope and Content
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.
People
- Gitler, Nina.
Subjects
- Warsaw Ghetto (Warsaw, Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Genre
- Document
- Poetry.
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