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[[War Diaries (nonfiction)|War Diary]] quotations for [[April 11]]
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== Quotations ==
== Entries ==


=== Benjamin Gilbert: April 11, 1781 ===
=== Benjamin Gilbert: April 11, 1781 ===
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[In a letter to his father and stepmother.]
—[[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)|Benjamin Gilbert]], soldier (letter to his father and stepmother)
 
[[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)|Benjamin Gilbert]] was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War whose kept a diary and wrote letters. The diary entries are terse and heavily abbreviated. They nearly always include a comment about the weather. There is very little information about actual fighting or battles, but they do frequently describe preparing to fight and moving from place to place. They contain information not usually found in descriptions of the typical activities of continental soldiers.


* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org


=== Reina Spiegel: July 18, 1942 ===
=== George Beck: April 11, 1944 ===


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Days go by. They’re all the same, like drops of rain. Evenings are the most pleasant. We sit in the yard in front of the house, we talk, joke and—breathing in the fragrance of the garden—I manage to forget that I live in the ghetto, that I have so many worries, that I feel lonely and poor, that Z. is a stranger to me, that despite all my longing I cannot get closer to him.
Today’s report from Deutsche Volksbeobechter “Odessa has fallen and now in Russian hands”. Other news says that Krim and Sebastopol are encircled. They’re doing marvellous and I can see the war being over this year if they keep it up. Still suffering with bad stomach awake all night.
 
Here, in the yard, doves coo. The moon’s crescent silently floats into the sky. I was on the verge of tears three times today. I blamed the living conditions, but love can flourish anywhere. And yet, shadows always flit on my path. Where do those shadows come from? My heart aches so badly.
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[[Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)|Renia Spiegel]] began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.
—[[George Beck (nonfiction)|George Beck]],1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)


* [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine
* http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm


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* [[George Beck (nonfiction)]]
* [[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)]]
* [[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)]]
* [[Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)]]
* [[Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)]]
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* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
* [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine
* [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hear-o-israel-save-us-renia-spiegel-diary-english-translation-holocaust-poland-180970536/ Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel] @ Smithsonian Magazine
* http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm


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War Diary entries for April 11

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Benjamin Gilbert: April 11, 1781

Our situation is peculiarly unhappy as the Troops that are with us have not drawn one half of their winter Cloths and received but one month pay for more than a year.

—Benjamin Gilbert, soldier (letter to his father and stepmother)

George Beck: April 11, 1944

Today’s report from Deutsche Volksbeobechter “Odessa has fallen and now in Russian hands”. Other news says that Krim and Sebastopol are encircled. They’re doing marvellous and I can see the war being over this year if they keep it up. Still suffering with bad stomach awake all night.

—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)

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