Palestine reports by Gabriele Tergit: Everything flows

From 1933 onwards, the Berlin author and bourgeois Gabriele Tergit lived in Palestine for five years. Your reports tell about this place without grandiose theories, but rather tangibly, as an event.

“We have lost our home and with it the familiarity of everyday life. We have lost our jobs and with it the confidence that we can be of any use in this world. We have lost our language and with it the naturalness of our reactions, the simplicity of our gestures and the informal expression of our feelings. We left our relatives behind in the Polish ghettos, our best friends were killed in the concentration camps, and that means the collapse of our private world.” This is how Hannah Arendt describes the collapse of the familiar world in 1943.