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It was many years before Kolitz was able to recapture his story and claim it as his own. It was later translated under his name in editions in Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish and
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but without Kolitz's name as the author. It was passed on as an authentic testimony of the Warsaw Ghetto and ended up in several
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And so, my God, before I die, freed from all fear, beyond all terror, in a state of absolute inner peace and trust, I will allow myself to call you to account one last time in my life,
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The Tiger
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Confrontation: The
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Kolitz was co-producer of several other
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and then lived for several years in Italy, where he attended the
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Zvi Kolitz, a son of a prominent rabbinical family, was born in
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a text both beautiful and true, true as only fiction can be.
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Lithuanian-born Jewish film/theatrical producer and writer
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a short story he wrote in 1946 for a Jewish newspaper in
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published the story in a slim volume with afterwords by
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211:The Teacher: An Existential Approach to the Bible
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162:(1954), a
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