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most most depressing read, Yet at the same time, a most important one because it teaches us to treasure what we have, The words are also testimony to the strength of humanity and also reminds us of humanity, A must read for everyone, While it's easy to breeze through, the imagery and cadence of the poems will stay with you for some time to come.
I felt this book so deeply, so intensely, that I honestly have no words for it, Tears ran down my face and my heart hurt, I heard family members I never got to know, cousins that were never born, friends that were kept from time all whispering through the pages of this book.
It's hard for me to review a book like this, On the one hand, I found some poets who were new to me and I definitely plan on trying to track down collections of their work some are out of print others have never been translated properly into English, which makes me sad.
On the other hand, there didn't seem to be much of a theme here, except that the poems mentioned the Holocaust somehow.
I was surprised by some of the poems contained here, particularly the one by Sylvia Plath, which I didn't feel fit at all and may have been added to the cover for "buy me, I have a poem by Sylvia Plath in me!" appeal.


But there are some gems contained in this book that gutted me, Miklos Radnoti, Boris Slutsky, Janos Pilinszky, Jerzy Ficowski, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, . . give me ALL of their poems, please, I think the story of Miklos Radnoti touched me the most some of the poems included in this collection were found on his body, where he was shot and buried in a mass grave in.
Talk about chilling. I instantly bought as many books as I could find that contained his poetry, and I haven't been disappointed yet, I'm also looking forward to buying Boris Slutsky's Glas it's currently out of stock his poem about how his grandmother was killed while he was fighting on the front was breathtaking and heartbreaking and courageous and EVERYTHING.


Recommended Yes. Just be prepared for a wide range of poetry, Easily the most powerful collection of poetry I have ever read, Somehow poetry is the best means to convey what happened during the Holocaustmuch better than history books, Many of these poems read simple in their stark, factual telling of their experiences, These are some of the best poems I've read in my life,

These lines were written on a wall where Jews were hiding in France:

I believe in the sun
Though it is late in rising

I believe in love
Though it is absent

I believe in God
Though he is silent Beautiful and emotional.
Now I'm a huge fan of war poetry! to come, It feels wrong to rate this, to try to put words to it, but each poem is powerful what an understatement! and the organization of the anthology is a work of art itself as it walks us through the many, terrible stages of the Shoah: alienation persecution destruction rescuers, bystanders, perpetrators afterwards second generation lessons God.


Yet we lived, a few of us, perhaps with no need but this:
To tell of the fire in the night and briefly flare like the dead.


Michael Hamburger, "Treblinka" Refugee Blues
By: W, H. Auden

Fable
By: János Pilinszky

In the Camp There Was One Alive
By: Randall Jarrell

Shipment tu Maidanek
By: Ephraim Fogel

Magda Geobbels
By: W.
D. Snodgrass

Auschwitz,
By: Adam Zych

Leave Us
By: Tadeusz Różewicz

The Survivor
By: Primo Levi

The Sun of Auschwitz
By: Tadeusz Borowski

Farewell to Maria
By: Tadeusz Borowski

The Execution of Memory
By: Jerzy Ficowski

My Mothers Friend
By: Lilly Brett

La Pathétique
By: Lilly Brett

The Return
By: Tadeusz Borowski

Almost a Love Poem
By: Yehuda Amichai

I Keep Forgetting
By: Lilly Brett Read as part of the class project I was doing on death poetry because the teacher thought I shouldn't do a project just about suicide poetry.
It is as heartbreaking and disturbing as you imagine it to be, A vast majority of the poems are written by survivors, a lot of the time while they were in the concentration camps.
It is a horrific look into what the world let happen, This is a book to be savored, I found I needed to mull over many of the poems, chew on them, reflect on them, My favorite is “In the Midst of Life”,
“After the end of the world
After death
I found myself in the midst of life
creating myself
building life
people animals landscapes.
. . ”
The poem goes on to identify and reconnect with the ordinary objects and people in his life, The writer finds new value in those people and objects and questions his own selfhood in my opinion, Perhaps he is the one who is new and strange,

Another favorite was “Riddle” that asks over and over, “Who killed the Jews” without an answer,
Such a powerful read, I'm normally not big on poetry, but I just couldn't put this book down, To imagine the fear, suffering, and pain the Jewish people had to endure during this time, And this is but a handful of thoughts of the millions and millions who perished, Just wow This amazing collection is able to destroy all faith in humanity and then entirely rebuild it only a few pages later, It is truly amazing to see the wonderful art that is able to come out of such a horrible time in history.
The poems are wonderfully divided into sections dealing with various aspects and ramifications of the holocaust, One of my favorite poems from this collection is "Riddle" by William Heyen, In this poem he masterfully poses the question of who is truly responsible for the atrocities committed, I would highly recommend this book to any lover of poetry, history, or the human condition, Holocaust Poetry compiled by and introduced by Hilda Schiff is a collection of poetry dealing with World War II and the Holocaust.
The compilation is divided into

six sections: Alienation Persecution Rescuers, Bystanders, Perpetrators Afterwards Second Generation and Lessons, There are wellknown poems in this collection and poems from young children, A few of the poems in this collection already have been featured on Savvy Verse amp Wit's Virtual Poetry Circle check out "If" by Edward Bond and "The Butterfly" by Pavel Friedmann.


Each poem in the collection uses alltoofamiliar images to demonstrate connections with family, friends, and strangers, and as each poem unfolds readers feel the devastation and hopelessness of each narrator, Schiff says in the introduction, "The more or less contemporaneous literature of any period of history is not only an integral part of that period, but it also allows us to understand historical events and experiences better than the bare facts alone can do because they enable us to absorb them inwardly.
" More or less, readers of poetry will find these observations valid, as will readers of fiction,

However, there are moments of levity when narrators poke fun at the devastating events of Nazi Germany's actions,

The Burning of the Books Page

When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cart loads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over.
He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power,
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me, Haven't my
books
Always reported the truth And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!

Beyond the poems in the collection depicting the horrors and the losses of persecuted people in Germany, the poems of bystanders, perpetrators, and others are surprising.
They talk of how they stood by and did nothing, how they want to help even if they are too late, Despite the time for help being long passed, these narrators express not guilt so much as regret a deep regret at having been so paralyzed by fear that they did nothing or acted contrary to who they believed themselves to be.


I Did Not Manage to Save page

I did not manage to save
a single life

I did not know how to stop
a single bullet

and I wander round cemeteries
which are not there

I look for words
which are not there
I run

to help where no one called
to rescue after the event

I want to be on time
even if I am too late

The poems selected for the "Second Generation" section will tug at readers heart strings, deepening the sense of loss.
An emptiness is present in some of these poems, Short biographies are included at the back of the book for readers interested in the poets' lives and connections to WWII and the Holocaust.


Holocaust Poetry is a collection that should be read in chunks rather than all at once, Readers may succumb to sorrow if they attempt to read the entire collection in once sitting, but even then, readers will fall into the darkness and emerge in the light.
Overall, the collection is a must have for anyone interested in this time period and learning more about how WWII and the Holocaust impact individual lives and families.
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