Category: Simkhe Don

  • A Letter from the Shtetl

    Softly the clock sounds its mournful tick-tock, / in the so still home with its ashen walls … / The sadness is painful, the silence is laden, / the hours drag slowly from one to the next…

  • About Simkhe Don

    Simkhe Don (1904-1942) was likely born in Pułtusk, and published many poems in the period between the two world wars. Very little is known about his life, other than his published poems. He was murdered by the Nazis in either Warsaw or Majdenek. His name in the original collection of The Song Remains – דאָס…