translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (May 2011)
　
 
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STRUGGLE FOR LIFE
　
By Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938): poet & satirist.

(According to Holocaust legends, this piece was read to a group of starved, naked and brutalized civilian captives -- orthodox Jews observing strict dietary rules -- to calm and comfort them before their mass murder in a gas chamber.)  more>>>