Marianne Rein. Click on images for larger views.
Images: Photographs of her in the 1930s; an illustration she did in one of her letters to Jacob Picard; a letter to Jacob Picard; a typed page of her poems; a letter from the National Council of Jewish Women; and a handwritten page of her poems—the second of which is translated below.
Europa
by Marianne Rein
The…
Contemplating Hell
by Bertolt Brecht
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,
My brother Shelley found it to be a place
Much like the city of London. I,
Who do not live in London, but in Los Angeles,
Find, contemplating Hell, that it
Must be even more like Los Angeles.
Also in Hell,
I do not doubt it, there exist these opulent gardens
With…
On Sunday, April 15th, the partners of the Center for Jewish History will host a second-hand book sale from 11am to 4pm.
The sale will include duplicate copies and “out-of-scope” work from the partners’ collections.
Discover used books about Jewish and general history, literature, art, biographies, religion and other related topics. Authors include Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Itzik Manger, Chaim Grade and many…
Untitled poem written in Theresienstadt ghetto
Author Unknown *
Today, I saw a thousand people with distraught expressions
Today, I saw a thousand people walking towards nothingness
In the grey of the cold morning, wandered the ostracized crowd
Leaving everything behind which they once called their life.
They walked through the gate
And left all the joy, happiness, prestige outside.
Where will this…