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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945) Matches Found: 956 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... AND THE EARTH REBELLED, by YURI SUHL Poem Source First Line: The earth rebelled. %the good and patient earth Last Line: Add to the prayer, the ashes, and the book, %the thunder of a jewish fighter's gun! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1905, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my father walked through mud Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism 1905, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my father walked through mud Last Line: And that was the torment Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1939, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman takes a small girl's hand Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism 1939, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman takes a small girl's hand Last Line: Until the river shines. The two walk on %into the clouds, an ample white, %into a sky that has alrea Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1940, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Fleeing from my fellow-countrymen Last Line: I can still see a small door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1945, THE SILENCE, by BURTON D. WASSERMAN Poem Source First Line: It was a letter Last Line: Or become part of us again: %she had become %the silence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1976, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vision floats %over the death camps %that stink. Till the end Last Line: Magnified and sanctified %the fallen sparks, %husks, on the street corners, %in the streets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1985 - IN A SMALL AMERICAN TOWN, by JUDITH IRWIN Poem Source First Line: Sleeping beside you, I know a distance Last Line: You draw into yourself %to cure the pain Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews A BRIEF, SYMBOLIC HISTORY OF THE TWO OPPOSED FORCES AT DAILY WORK IN THE UNIVERSE, WITH INTERIM SCEN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Later, in europe, paper mills Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Paper; Writing & Writers; Printing & Printers; Shoah A CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of morning we drink you at dusktime Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Shoah; Judaism A GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism A LETTER FROM BERLIN, by JON STALLWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, today a letter from berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War ABBIENTI, by STEVEN LEVI Poem Source First Line: There is a photograph in my father's study Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ABUSE, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: In that place, %one of those places Last Line: My god, %was there abuse! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AD, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanted: men: / millions of men are wanted at once in a big new field; Last Line: Take a job in the coming profession: / wages: death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism AD, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanted: men: %millions of men are wanted at once in a big new field; Last Line: No skill needed; %no ambition required; no brains wanted and no character allowed; Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ADLER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewish king lear is getting ready Last Line: That isadora duncan came to worship him Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ADLER, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewish king lear is getting ready Last Line: Sitting on top of the barrels, as if there were flowers-- %still sang in bitterness, still wept and Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ADOLF EICHMANN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no tricks in speaking of this man Last Line: Lord, forgive me, I can't keep down my hate Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism AFFIDAVIT AT NUREMBERG TRIALS, by HERMANN GRAEBE Poem Source First Line: During the 15 minutes Last Line: Who, as she passed close to me, %pointed to herself and said, %'23' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis AFLAME!, by MORDECAI GEBIRTIG Poem Source First Line: Aflame! Brothers! Aflame! %there may come the moment of shame Last Line: Brothers, don't stand and look around %while our town goes up in flame Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER AUSCHWITZ, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, / as black as a hook Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Shoah; Judaism; Theology AFTER AUSCHWITZ, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, %as black as a hook Last Line: I beg the lord not to hear Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion AFTER CLAUDE LANZMANN'S SHOAH, by LILIANE RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: It was always peaceful Last Line: No one watched the mindless river %ferrying downstream kilos of powerdered bones Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER FORTY YEARS, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: They've found the body Last Line: The angel in his name %passing over the gates of the camps Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER OUR BIRTH, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: A pile of them. Not six feet Last Line: All this, the first day's gift. %endless days ahead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER POETRY, by JANE SCHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: What should we do with silence Last Line: Scribbling across the wound? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER THAT TIME, by HARRIET SUSSKIND Poem Source First Line: And it would never be over. After that Last Line: Is this the final justice? %the moment the clock can move on? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER THE HOLOCAUST, NO POETRY, by DAVID KOENIG Poem Source Last Line: Like torn and injured pages %from buried books of prayer Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER THE WAR, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: After the war %it made your ears ache Last Line: Was surprised %to find you still alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER VIEWING SHOAH, by HARRY MAIZEL Poem Source First Line: Its been limned a thousand times Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AGAIN I LIVE, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again I live on the west side. Last Line: She's involved %with her own burning Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AGAINST PARTING, by NATAN ZACH Poem Source First Line: My tailor is against parting Last Line: (my father died meanwhile) %against parting Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Last Line: We're watchers. But if we had bombs we'd drop them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii ALCHEMICAL, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silence, cooked like gold, in Last Line: Fingers, insubstantial as smoke, like crests, crest of air %around -- %great, grey one. Wake- %less. Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ALMOST A LOVE POEM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my parents and your parents Last Line: What's your name? / hannale Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ALMOST A LOVE POEM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my parents and your parents Last Line: What's your name? Hannale Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ALONE, by NAHUM BOMZE Poem Source First Line: Alone at midnight lying %I whispered into my ear Last Line: And when the grasses waken, %up from the ground you'll grow.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ALREADY EMBRACED BY THE ARM OF HEAVENLY SOLACE, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then she kisses the air-born being %and dies! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AMSTERDAM POEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All-beethoven night at the concertgebouw Last Line: The city, its citizens, I know nothing about. %tomorrow klm can fly us out Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANALFABETA, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I have a friend whose great-grandfather learned to read Last Line: If so, was it climbing or descending? %did it disappear or did it stay? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AND ALWAYS WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And always when the sun goes down Last Line: And no grave was allotted them Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AND HAVE THERE BEEN MANY MORE DAYS ALLOTTED?, by JACOB (JACK) GORDON Poem Source First Line: And have there been many more days allotted? Last Line: In the final hour - %make strong my soul! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AND NOTHING MOVED, by RICHARD C. RAYMOND Poem Source First Line: I know I saw those things Last Line: And into screaming ducts and crannies %sterile horror ooze for a thousand years? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AND THERE WREE PITS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: And take them out by hand %and lay them gently down Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANI MAAMIN, SELS, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Behold, god of abraham, god of mercy Last Line: I wait daily for his coming, I believe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNA'S DREAM, by NANCY SHIFFRIN Poem Source First Line: Ovens. Women in line waiting for showers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNIVERSARY POEM, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: The anniversary poem is a glass roofed Last Line: That question that every human %must ask himself %before he call call himself human Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Last Line: And wicks turn down to darkness in the madman's eyes Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 2, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My suit is hairy, my carpet smells of death Last Line: While the room fills with the zyklon b I cough Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 3, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On picadilly underground I fall asleep Last Line: But sratches web the ceiling of a train Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 4, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around staring buildings the pale flowers grow Last Line: Death's botanical gardens can flower again Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 5, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man eating his dressing in the hospital Last Line: They crowd out peace from executioners' sleep Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 6, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forty thousand bald men drowning in a stream Last Line: Which has not cared about or guessed its tortured scope Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits Last Line: And all poultry eaters are psychopaths Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNUNICATION, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't be dismayed, woman, by my fierce form Last Line: This is your winged seed. Woman, rejoice Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNUS MIRABILIS 1989, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Ten years ago, beneath the hotel astoria Last Line: I pondered at the resilience of an old monster Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANOTHER BOOK ON THE HOLOCAUST, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: Is it the duty Last Line: How can they, the living proof, %believe we don't believe? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANOTHER SELECTION, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Mengele looked %while the kommandment Last Line: It passed the test Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANSWERING MACHINE MESSAGE, by SARI FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Micki, the message on your new machine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANTI-SEMITIC DEMONSTRATION, by GAIL NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: There are hundreds of people in the street Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews APPLE: 1, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In israel at that time just after the war Last Line: Were you to eat a bit of my survivor's heart %even the size of an apple seed, %it would poison you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews APPLE: 2, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In israel at that time just after the war Last Line: Perhaps this was the eye of the angel %of the camps. I cupped it in my hands. %I swallowed at least Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews ARCHIVE FILM MATERIAL, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: At first it seemed a swaying field of flowers Last Line: Unloaded from the cattle trucks at auschwitz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASCENSIONS, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: You, marc chagall, should be able to tell us Last Line: Not even a marker saying: %here the kikes %en-masse ascended Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Men ASH ON THE SUN, by CHAIM PLOTKIN Poem Source First Line: The numbers on her arm - %nails of the beast! Last Line: She bears grudges, resents her rescuer %the miracle . . . Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASPEN OKTOBERFEST, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: Through an amber dazzle of aspen Last Line: And closes. And creekwater flashes, leaping down off the peaks, %making up new lives as it runs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASSEMBLING THE DEAD AT DACHAU, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: This is where they begin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASSUMPTION OF MIRIAM FROM THE STREET IN THE WINTER OF 1942, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Snowflakes were teeming down Last Line: Hosanna %lifted %right to the bottom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT A MASS GRAVE, by M. TRUMAN COOPER Poem Source First Line: We should try not to look away Last Line: Their hands or not, we will feel %their fingers wedged between our own Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT BABI YAR, by JO NELSON Poem Source First Line: They lay them to sleep %by the score in the fatal gorge Last Line: It was part of hitler's jewish solution Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT BIRKENAU, by T. W. PERKINS Poem Source First Line: Today, I have said %kaddish Last Line: What we saw here %today Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM, by OLGA CABRAL Poem Source First Line: Only what I bring to this room will exist Subject(s): Art And Artists; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT YOUR TABLE, VIENNA V, 1957, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: You serve me on plates marked with my grandmother's monogram Last Line: You with your passion for music, crying as the bow %shuddersover tight dried gut Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ, by NICHOLAS RINALDI Poem Source First Line: Lucky the ones who were sick and in pain Last Line: The ground opened up: they could fall and fall %and never be found Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ #1, by ALFRED VAN LOEN Poem Source First Line: With gradual rhythm snowflakes Last Line: After nearly two thousand years %of christianity Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ #5, DEVILISH TORTURES INVENTED BY HUMANS, by ALFRED VAN LOEN Poem Source First Line: A man torn from his home Last Line: And the cold of the night %hurried his starvation Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ #6, by ALFRED VAN LOEN Poem Source First Line: Tortured, sick, and hungry Last Line: To the same stake %and the flames leaped with the laughter %of the nazis Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ FROM COLOMBO, by ANNE RANASINGHE Poem Source First Line: Colombo. March. The city white fire Last Line: That stirs but slightly the ancient dust Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ NOCTURNE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The jew at 1 am moves in near silence Last Line: Only the ghost viols whispering the yellow gas %of mozart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ REPORTAZ, by ALAN LUPACK Poem Source First Line: Today we went to auschwitz. As we approached it, I could feel a Last Line: Were escaping across the fiery river surrounding hell Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ, 1987, by ADAM ZYCH Poem Source First Line: And nobody shouts halt Last Line: With its resonant name: %auschwitz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: FIRST, UNDRESS, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: One morning at about 4 a.M., while the rest of the lager slept, filip Last Line: Speaking to his subordinates: 'you see?' aumeyer said. 'you see? %that's the way to do it!' Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: GEOLOGY, by HARVEY MUDD Poem Source First Line: At auschwitz-birkenau Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: LIKE BUTTERFLIES, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: The auschwitz 'angel of death,' josef mengele Last Line: Human eyes of every color %mounted on the wall like butterflies Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mengele, Josef (1911-1979) AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: A man who, in his youth in poland Last Line: Of setting these trained dogs on prisoners; %he cannot forget the third signal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE II, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: Another man Last Line: This way, please, ladies, gentlemen...' %these things he once saw, he says, he can never forget Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I died with the first blow and was buried Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I died with the first blow and was buried Last Line: And even this is only half a revenge Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABI YAR, by CAROLE GLASSER LANGILLE Poem Source First Line: They say the woman with the black hair Last Line: Hugging her shadow. %what substance do we have? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABI YAR, by LEV OZEROV Poem Source First Line: I have come to you, babi yar Last Line: Don't forget! %do not forgive! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABI YAR, by ASHER TORREN Poem Source First Line: Next year Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABI-YAR, by SHIKE DRIZ Poem Source First Line: I'd have picked the right beam for a crib to be swung on Last Line: Help me, mothers, help me %rock babi - yar to rest! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: No monument stands over babii yar Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Shoah; Judaism BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No monument stands over babii yar Last Line: I am a true russian! Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms BALLAD OF ITZIK WITTENBERG, by SHMERKE KATCHERGINSKY Poem Source First Line: The enemy hearkens: a beast in the darkness Last Line: Now you be my first - in - command! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BALLADE OF BEAUTIES, by ALEXANDER+(2) SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Miss israel nineteen-sixty-eight is new Last Line: Miss warsaw ghetto nineteen-forty-two Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BARREN MARRIAGE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Two survivors of the holocaust Last Line: Without offending anyone's god; %and always they fall asleephoping, hoping Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BASHERT, SELS., by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BATTENBERG LACE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Hoping to erase creases Last Line: On god's freshly cleaned and pressed %battenberg-lace sky Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BE SEEING YOU, by VASKO POPA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the third evening round Last Line: We know what we mean Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEATINGS, by WILL WELLS Poem Source First Line: She slings her rugs faithfully Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEFORE, by LEYB KVITKO Poem Source First Line: We hove up walls for work and home Last Line: Death followed, flung his arms around us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEFORE NIGHT, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: In rows, in battalions, they shuffle, they crowd Last Line: How many the souls that have merged in my own Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEING CHILDREN, by MARILYNN CAROLE GLICK TALAL Poem Source First Line: That year each day's paper Last Line: The small swellings on our ribs %turned them away Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEING MODERN IN JERUSALEM, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: Gisela, I went to the well Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BELSEN, DAY OF LIBERATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her parents and her dolls destroyed Last Line: They were so beautiful %and they were not afraid Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii BENNY, by FRAN ADLER Poem Source First Line: For benjamin ben yakov, and his father Last Line: Like a flash flood rushing in %you fill cisterns underground Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BERGEN-BELSEN 1945, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children ate whatever we gave them Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BERLIN: 1933-1993, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: In berlin, grey city of my birth Last Line: To which I vow never to return Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEST IN THE BUSINESS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Each restive night Last Line: Corky' schwartz, escape artist par excellence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BIRD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sang heinrich, I would fly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BIRD NAMED ISIDORE, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: There is a story about a hummingbird named isidore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BIT OF BREAD, by CHAIEH LEDIK Poem Source First Line: Yellow patch across my back; %on my shoulder an empty pack Last Line: Through the gloom to a bit of bread %(sung in a camp near bremen) Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BITTER RIDDLES OF HISTORY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Why does memory forget itself so easily Last Line: Who or what will thrust a star of david through its heart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLACKNESS OF JEWS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Is the white side of darkness Last Line: Children from ash and anger, %from blind and crippled love Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLESSED ART THOU, NO-ONE, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: If I reach after you Last Line: So that you may cross %a border into your own life Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLUE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To witness, to %enter this Last Line: Bottomless sky, children %rising wreathed %to your blue lips Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLUE PARAKEET, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: They knew what was coming to radom, to all the jews Last Line: I held her very gently, the way a child would hold %a tiny bird in her hands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOGHOS SARKISSIAN,... REMEMBERS THE TURKISH ATROCITIES, 1905, by LEO HAMALIAN Poem Source First Line: Doors ripped off houses Last Line: We confront it. %it consumes us. %it consumes us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Last Line: How beautiful it was until I knew Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK BURNER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday afternoon, %at loose ends and without suitable alternatives Last Line: Heaved it into the sun's sputtering ash heap, %not even stopping to watch it ignite Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS, by LEO HABER Poem Source First Line: The event called holocaust was not made for poetry Last Line: Of explanations, for the murder of little children Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Last Line: Though they killed him in the camp they sent him to, %he will walk in as you're sitting down to a me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOTS/LAARZEN, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: A boot is a type of shoe Last Line: Boots/laarzen: %two words, %two worlds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOTH YOUR MOTHERS, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Under a little torah Last Line: When you say %I am Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BRAMBLE, by PERETZ KAMINSKY Poem Source First Line: I add my silence Last Line: The fires of auschwitz rise from the thorns Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: "to discover the country of our waking Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons & Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Shoah; Judaism BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: To discover the country our waking %breaking open Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BRIDGE REVERBERATES EACH STEP WE TAKE, by JACOB (JACK) GORDON Poem Source First Line: The bridge reverberates each step we take Last Line: Caress, oh caress me . . . %it's dark, it's late Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH A HERO, NAME UNKNOWN, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: It could have been a matter of modesty Last Line: Maybe it was simple recklessness Subject(s): Heroism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BRINGING KLAUS BARBIE TO TRIAL, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: How many times must we return Last Line: Can't we sentence it to silence once and forever? Subject(s): Barbie, Klaus (1913-1991); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BROOCH, by OLGA DRUCKER Poem Source First Line: White bone-rose, silver thorns Last Line: Before she too was dragged away %leaving us %our legacy? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 1, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: Saturday morning, playing hide-and-seek Last Line: We are the children of heartbreak' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 2, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: Hatless, we played hide-and-seek Last Line: Grief in the pitch of the voice Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 3, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: At the kitchen table I hear stories Last Line: By the rivers of babylon o lay down and wept Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 4, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: Human beings reduce to a handful of ashes Last Line: Become mountains of ashes at buchenwald Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 5, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: It is april, I walk around, I carry a rifle Last Line: It was nothing I didn't expect Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUNA, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Torn feet and cursed earth Last Line: With what kind of face would we confront each other? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BURNING OF THE BOOKS, by LOTTE KRAMER Poem Source First Line: When the regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge Last Line: Treating me like a liar! I command you: %burn me! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BURNT, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: Burdened with family feelings, I went Last Line: And quietly repeating: %burnt Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BURNT PEARLS, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: It is not just because my words quiver Last Line: Are these gray pearls %smoldering in the ash Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUSINESS IN GERMANY, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: At the airport hotel my room is tiny Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUT LOOK, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But look %but look Last Line: A straight candle %into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUTTERFLY, by PAVEL FRIEDMANN Poem Source First Line: He was the last. Truly the last Last Line: There are no butterflies, here, in the ghetto Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Last Line: The star laughs from its rotting shroud %of flesh. O star o f men! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii CAMP SONG NEWLY HEARD, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Once there was elzunia Last Line: Because she died alaone, %because she was elzunia Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CAMPO DEI FIORI, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In rome, on campo dei fiori Last Line: Rage will kindle at a poet's word Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CANTOR'S DREAM BEFORE THE DAYS OF AWE, by MARTIN ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: In white robes I'm joined by a Last Line: Collapsing in the unwavering %blast of the shofa's one call Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CAROLYN'S NEIGHBOR, by DEBORAH S. SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Rhoda bok %who survived treblinka, said to us Last Line: Only of the cold; of always, %always %still shaking with it Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CARTLOAD OF SHOES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: The wheels hurry onward, onward Last Line: They drive us to berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CATTLE TRAIN TO MAGDEBURG, by JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: She still remembers %the box cars Last Line: And always a train of box cars %bleached to baltic gray Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CH'VIL SCHREIBEN A POEM AUF YIDDISH, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I want to write a poem in yiddish Last Line: Not quite consumed, not even %by the heat of my yiddish poem Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Poetry And Poets; Yiddish CHANT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE ON EARTH, by LESLIE WOOLF HEDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not to forget nor to ever forget so long as you live Last Line: For to be called a man would be an insult Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG Poem Text First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel Last Line: And live for evermore. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by HAROLD DEBREST Poem Text First Line: You see these slender tapers standing there Last Line: Its way to god and immortality. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The blessings are chanted Last Line: I feel blessed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHICAGO SCENE (1952, 1969), by MARTIN ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: Dawn in my mind Last Line: On this dawn I now remember %what a generation's buried Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILD SURVIVORS' SEDER, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Today, once again Last Line: We're here, we're alive, %we're together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDHOOD, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Your milk was already poisoned Last Line: So they could take it out on the jews %at the synagogue exit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDHOOD, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Your milk was already poisoned Last Line: To let off steam with the jews %by the synagogue door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think we can save them Last Line: To keep them safe in my own body, %and knew I would again. Men Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN 2, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: There %were Last Line: Walked with their mothers %to the gas Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by NAUM KORZHAVIN Poem Source First Line: Men tortured children %cleverly. Deliberately. Efficiently Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN OF NIGHT, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: We live in this world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN OF TEREZIN, by STANLEY COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: They smelled like grandfathers Last Line: Have many arms, %and that corpses are green %as grass Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN'S DREAMS AT THERESIENSTADT, by MARGARET DELGUERICO Poem Source First Line: Esther, age eight, sketched %her family at the dining room table Last Line: Celebrating purim %with you, my friends Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHORUS OF THE DEAD, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We from the black sun of fear Last Line: Into our hidden god Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHORUS OF THE STARS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We stars, we stars Last Line: Then, o blind one, you will see again! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CITY CHILDREN AT A SUMMER CAMP. SLONIM, 1936, by KIRTLAND SNYDER Poem Source First Line: The naked girls %lift their arms Last Line: No fruit to come, %ever, %from their plump vulvas Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CLOUDED SKY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: The moon hangs on a clouded sky Last Line: I roll myself a cigarette, %slowly, carefully. I live Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews COMET GHAZAL, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Amidst our troubles, a sudden blessing Last Line: Our own last-minute plummet in the evening sky Variant Title(s): Ghazal: Come Subject(s): Comets; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Variant Title(s): The Right To Life Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Shoah; Judaism; Virgin Mary CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Last Line: Rather the day is hot and the nights temperate %as in may in spain in andalusia Variant Title(s): The Right To Lif Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women - Bible CONVERSATIONS WITH DR. M, by RACHEL LODEEN Poem Source First Line: They say it is you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews COUNTING BACKWARDS, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: You & your sisters said I has the head of thirty year old Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews COUNTING SHEEP BY NIGHT, by LOIS MATHIEU Poem Source First Line: They walk among us in the cold Last Line: Their flock jumps from the blue sky %into the darkest pits of conscience Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRACOW, NOW!, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Defeated, exiled, indefensibly committed Last Line: Toward precarious lodging, %in the ghettos of your unsuspecting ears Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLE, by SHIKE DRIZ Poem Source First Line: The cradle rocks itself %morning and night Last Line: Holds one bloody straw %in its mouth today Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: Do not sleep, my darling child; %now's no time for dreams Last Line: When you're grown, my darling, show %you've your father's spirit! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG, by LEIZER WOLF Poem Source First Line: Sleep, my child; %the night is dropping Last Line: Stretch their feet out %at our feet Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG 1943, by MOISHE SHULSHTEIN Poem Source First Line: I'll sing a lullaby to you, my dear Last Line: Sleep, life of my life that will not be Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG FOR AMERICAN-JEWISH CHILDREN-1940, by ZEKHARYE-KHONE BERGNER Poem Source First Line: Sleep, my child, my jewish child Last Line: Child - if you are able Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG FOR TODAY, by ZISHA LANDAU Poem Source First Line: Overhead a cold moon gleams; %drowse, my darling, into dreams Last Line: And whoever comes their way %shall not see another day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG OF A JEWISH MOTHER IN POLAND, by MEYER-ZIMMEL TKATCH Poem Source First Line: Husha - hush, my little jew, %branch of a great line Last Line: That I should be singing you %such a lullaby Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CREATION, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The creator called forth Last Line: And help finish the work of creation Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CROW-MAGNON MAN, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Although hardly original Last Line: He sees them pecking his flattened, bleeding carcass Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRYSTAL NIGHT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Windows slashed like skin pulled Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CUORSE ON HIS FATHER'S SUCCESSORS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: To this day, animosity fills his nostrils Last Line: He spits backward, not waiting to hear the splatter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DACHAU, by MARY KATHRYN STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: I was born within these confines Last Line: I am not allowed to go farther. %I will not go Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DACHAU '44, by JUDITH BERKE Poem Source First Line: Jawheh sat on the floor next to my bed Last Line: Then I lay down on the bed, and rested Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DACHAU MOON, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place lie germany in the body Last Line: Not placed properly on the head %like this, lord, like this Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DADDIES' GIRLS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: An old sales rep who lost both daughters in the holocaust Last Line: She'll always be death's whore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Last Line: They always knew it was you. %daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis DAN'S SHOE REPAIR: 1959, by CHRISTINE LAHEY Poem Source First Line: We know who her father is Last Line: Pictures stuck in his mind %that he cannot talk about Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DANCING DOG, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I am the placid animal Last Line: I stepped into the day: a well-trained animal Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DARKNESS AND LIGHT, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Darkness and light %are my intimate family Last Line: Are my lifelong companions Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DAY FOR ANNE FRANK, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look onto an alley here Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEAD CHILD SPEAKS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother held me by my hand Last Line: The unsheathing of the great knife of parting Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEAD MEN DON'T PRAISE GOD, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We received the torah on sinai Last Line: Dead men don't praise god. %the torah was given to the living Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEAR NEIGHBORS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buy, buy, dear neighbors, %buy this piece of earth Last Line: In foreign, wanderer nights %it may pillow me asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugue Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugue Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening Last Line: Dein aschenes haar shulamith Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugu Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of dawn we drink it at dusk Last Line: Your golden hair margarete %your ashen hair shulamite Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown Last Line: Your ashen hair shulamith Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH OF THE PARTISAN GIRL: RUSSIA, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: There must have been a time when everything to you Last Line: But I intend to remember Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH SHIP, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It lay in the harbor at istanbul Last Line: One was saved. %he was allowed to enter %palestine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not save Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime; Shoah; Judaism DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not save Last Line: I put this book here for you, who once lived %so that you should visit us no more Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime DEFACING GRAVESTONES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Who ever knew such bucolic seclusion as I do Last Line: Who died a lifetime ago Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEFILEMENT, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Ye shall not pollute Last Line: We purify ourselves, %and we survive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DER GILGUD (THE POSSESSED), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He picks a coin up Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Shoah DER VIDERSHTAND (THE RESISTANCE), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Began this in olson's words it was Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Shoah DESNOS READING THE PALMS OF MEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I should go back to the white leather Last Line: Don't you hear it? Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Fortune Tellers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hope; Jews; Palmistry; Shoah; Optimism; Judaism DESTROYING ALL TRACES OF EVIDENCE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: His amorphous shape awakens inordinately late Last Line: The ss has arrived to gather his ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Troy DEVILS' DANCE, by NATHAN KORMAN Poem Source First Line: Heine goes up in flame, and the gomorrah Last Line: Devils' curse - but only curse themselves Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DI RAYSE AHEYM / THE JOURNEY HOME, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She looks out the window Last Line: Will become monuments %ire zikhroynes %will cast shadows Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIARY OF A TASHKENT JEW, by GLORIA GLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: In white siberia where the fallen have risen Last Line: We who were murdered lie eternally awake %stirring ashes Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIE VERARBEITUNG, PROCESSING, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: In the words of ss unterscharfuhrer franz suchomel, treblinka was Last Line: Figure cited by some jews today Variant Title(s): A German Lesson; Treblink Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIGGING, by FRANK LOUIS FINALE Poem Source First Line: She went to the local library, found Last Line: Over the open trencfhes in a field %where evergreens bristle the wind, listen, shh %shh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DISHES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: On the street where I grew up, there was a man whose mother went mad from Last Line: Plates rattle on, and I peer through a slit to gaze at the obscene shape of the moon Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; China (porcelain); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pottery And Potters DITTY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the jewish god go? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DITTY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the jewish god go? Last Line: As dew from the grass Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DON'T SING THE SORROWFUL, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Don't sing the sorrowful; %don't bring disgrace Last Line: The life that is hidden %in each Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DOUBLING, by LESTER SPEISER Poem Source First Line: The schutzhaftlagerfuhrer dines Last Line: For franz, lieber schatzi franz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DRAWING THE BLINDS, by GERALD MUSINSKY Poem Source First Line: If you have seen the tan-shell beetles Last Line: But leave the chair, close the windows, %and draw the blinds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Daydreams, %nightdreams, %waking dreams Last Line: Will I still be haunted by dreams, %eternally Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMS, by SHIFRE WEISS Poem Source First Line: I am the tablets %of all the dreams I've dreamt Last Line: To rescue the dreams I dreamt, %rewrite the holy pages Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMS OF AUSCHWITZ, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: I often dream of auschwitz now Last Line: Wears down what's left of people Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMSCAPE WITH THREE CROWS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Three crows, %like gargoyles poised on a cathedral's lip Last Line: For fear that corpses might be stacked there Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DRILL AT NATHANYA, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: As strange as it would be to encounter a five-legged zebra Last Line: Thick and black against the ash-gray heavens Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Military DRINKING WITH THE NAZIS, by JOSEPH GLAZER Poem Source First Line: Down the street their script on every window Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 1. WHEN WE LOOK UP, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had not looked Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 1. WHEN WE LOOK UP, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had not looked Last Line: Does not know: we are members %one of another Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blacked-out streets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blacked-out streets Last Line: Each a mirror %for man's eys Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DVORA, by DENYSE KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: Today %to be a jew in israel is to carry in your heart a lifelong debet Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EARRINGS, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: A bialik tradition back home was Last Line: The empty holes %grown shut Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women ECLIPSE OF 1964, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow and sure, %like god's sword Last Line: She is wrapped in the smoke %of burning jews Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ELEGY; IN HONOR OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING, APRIL 19,1943, by ANTONI SLONIMSKI Poem Source First Line: No more, no more jewish townships in poland Last Line: Two nations which supped full of the same suffering Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ELI 1943, by R. M. COOPER Poem Source First Line: One of the visiting dignitaries Last Line: Picture: leaning slightly forward, at ease, %smiling - a group-shot standing near some trees Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ELUSIONIST, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Lately, sleep has been such an amorphous place Last Line: To prove that auschwitz didn't neuter his spirit %eternally Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EMPTY LITTLE BED, by DAVID EINHORN Poem Source First Line: Lulla, lulla, baby's bed, %baby's bare, deserted bed - Last Line: Where my little goat lies dead %let us bleed together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ENTRANCE TO THE OLD CRACOW GHETTO, by DAVID ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: Symmetry of alleyways and coutryard Last Line: To spring the cage, plunging the bird %into a shining field Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EQUALITY, FATHER, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Equality, father! Your dream has come true Last Line: Let us commit a mortal sin %worthy of death Subject(s): Fathers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EREV SHABBAT TEFILAH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Erev shabbat in synagogue Last Line: And makes me feel holy %for a short time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ESCAPING GHETTOS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: For the last fifty years Last Line: Almost believed they belonged to the vaterland Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ETCHINGS, by JAMES WILLIAM CHICHETTO Poem Source First Line: Perhaps there is a better night than this or better dream Last Line: To put a rock down on their graves. %... And they buried the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ETERNITY, by MOISHE SHIMMEL Poem Source First Line: I need help like a person dangerously ailing Last Line: - because I'm scared of being dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EUROPE, LATE, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Violins float in the sky Last Line: Don't worry so - you'll see - it could Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EUROPEAN MOVEMENTS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Cordoba to hamburg bordeaux to Last Line: Culture! Such anointings with sacred oils, %bathings in blessed waters! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EVEN THE OLD MEN'S LAST BREATH, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even the old men's last breath %that had already grazed death Last Line: And drive this unloosed star %into its lord's hands! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EVERY FEW MONTHS, by ALINA TUGEND Poem Source Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EXCAVATOR, by EMILY BORENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The engine of the excavator rumbles Last Line: May it fall apart! %may it fall into quicksand! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EXECUTION OF MEMORY, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: When the first patches of snow Last Line: By walking I trample Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EXPERIMENTS WITH GOD, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: As a child before she knew Last Line: The gas of auschwitz on god's breath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EXPOSURE, by ESTHER CAMERON Poem Source First Line: Supine in the rough grass Last Line: This is your destiny, your vigil, %your service Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FACES IN SWAMPS: 1, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: And overnight our thoughts grew gray. The sun Last Line: Faces in a swamp --over the sunset, over huts Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FACES IN SWAMPS: 2, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Serpents of darkness: nooses choke Last Line: And it's a shame to put it to my throat Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAMILY ALBUM, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: My father stands in the picture Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAMILY ALBUM, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Some pages have eyes, some mouths. They desire Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAMILY SECRETS, by SHARON KESSLER Poem Source First Line: My waiting time is over. I absolve you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FARAWAY LANDSCAPE, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: An artist in our midst. Fool, I tell myself, why risk Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAREWELL TO EUROPE, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: We, the captives of a thousand skies Last Line: You have no one to bludgeon but each other! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAREWELL TO MARIA, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: If you are living, remember Last Line: Like human smoke above the wind Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FATHER'S LULLABY, by AARON KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Through some wild, deserted stretch Last Line: I am now your mother . . . I. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FEINSTEIN THE CLOTHIER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Heading to breakfast early Last Line: Splattering on the town's sacrosanct marble steps Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FEW MORE THINGS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST, by LEATRICE H. LIFSHITZ Poem Source First Line: Not only their money Last Line: A few more things %like shame and shadow %space and spirit %god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FIRST JOB, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: The %first Last Line: Went %willingly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: To speak out for me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOLK ART, by JUDITH CHALMER Poem Source First Line: Just the outlines %of wings Last Line: Like the cover on a waking bird Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOOTNOTE FOR PERETS MARKISH, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: There it was, perets, your name Last Line: What if hair is sprouting on your dreaming head %lost perets markish, lost hero? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Ukraine FOR A COMRADE, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Murdered comrade %at the barbed wire Last Line: Let another swallow my word %as I, your bread Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR ADOLF EICHMANN, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind runs free across our plains Last Line: Saw it grow dark around him, the air filled with death Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR HERMANN HEYEN, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hermann, the channel was blue-green Last Line: Anyway, your plane blew up, for a moment, %like a sun; your dust bailed out all over Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR MALKA WHO LIVED THREE DAYS DYING, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE Poem Source First Line: Through long days and nights, he went Last Line: In this dream, tell me, %does she whisper where the strength%comes from? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR NELLY SACHS, by KINERETH GENSLER Poem Source First Line: Every morning I took a shower Last Line: This numbness %like the end of all desire %the terrible forgetting in my body Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR OUR DEAD, by MARILYNN CAROLE GLICK TALAL Poem Source First Line: The air where their ashes have gone Last Line: That hole in the air hangs, shaping itself %into a mouth silently screaming Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE ARDEATINE CAVES: 1. ABOVE THE GIARDINO ALLA FRANCESE, by VINCE CLEMENTE Poem Source First Line: From your window above the giardino all francese Last Line: This god redeyed %all in pieces %seeding the fall harvest Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE ARDEATINE CAVES: 2. INSIDE THE ARDEATINE CAVES, by VINCE CLEMENTE Poem Source First Line: You learn, herr kappler Last Line: No resurrection here,' %you tell yourself, %'none tonight.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE CHILDREN, by DAVID MCKAIN Poem Source First Line: In a painting by brueghel Last Line: Upside down in the cold winter light %for all the children to see Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE YIDDISH POETS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Everything. Hours of %forgetfulness, caressed Last Line: Is remembered in the dazed glimmer %of wakefulness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR VICTIMS, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: They have used the bodies Last Line: Which belongs to them %light passers-by Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FORCED MARCH, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: You're crazy. You fall down, - stand up and walk again Last Line: Don't walk past me, friend. - yell, and I'll stand up again! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FORCED MARCH; BOR, 15 SEPTEMBER 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: The man who, having collapsed, rises, takes steps, is insane Last Line: Don't go past me, my friend - shout! And I'll rise again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FORTY THREE YEARS AFTER HITLER MY PARENTS VISIT EUGENE, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: One day in the fall sun Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FREEDOM DAY: MAY 5TH, by ROGER SUVA Poem Source First Line: Along the prinsen gracht %I saw anne frank's house Last Line: To celebrate the end of the holocaust Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FRIDAY NIGHT OUT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He's grown so used to living alone Last Line: On the front stoop of his dreams, %greeting him home, again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FROM VILNA WENT FORTH STILL ANOTHER DECREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From vilna went forth still another decree Last Line: Some storm troopers, bitten and bloody Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GABY AT THE U. N. OBSERVATION POST, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: On the border %you're posed and poised as a model Last Line: Turn your face away from the wind %when it blows %their loose hair in your eyes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GAS OVENS, by JOANNA M. WESTON Poem Source First Line: We dropped cyanide leaves Last Line: So we did it to his son Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GENUINE JEWISH FLESH, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Rabbi abe rosen returned home from hell Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GERMAN FRONTIER AT BASEL: 1942 & 1992, by HILDA SCHIFF Poem Source First Line: Just four miles to go and the frontier ahead Last Line: The sweat, the stench, the gas, the horror Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GERMAN OFFICER WRITES A LETTER, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: My dear predecessor, %these three days have proved Last Line: Would you be so kind %to recommend somebody good Variant Title(s): The German Officer Inherit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Masculinity (psychology) GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down Last Line: It is what they do not say Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GERMANY, 1981, by PHYLLIS KAHANEY Poem Source First Line: Once in berlin I rode the subway all day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GETTING LOST IN NAZI GERMANY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not move about, but try Last Line: Calling you home, little jewboy in alarm. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism GHETTO, by GLORIA GLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Still I see them. Inform, creeping Last Line: My mother's mother, my father's father %an integrated pile of ash Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GHETTO LULLABY, by ISAIAH SPIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Time now to shut your eyes; %out of the darkening skies Last Line: Followed you to the precipice of the world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GHETTO SONG, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within your bones my singing %melts like the snow's first flakes Last Line: The good hands of your father %are opening the gate Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GIFT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1945, when the keepers cried kaput Last Line: That clean white paper waiting under a pen %is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GIFT, by LUADA SANDLER Poem Source First Line: My life, she said at last, quietly Last Line: And tell your parents, tell them with love, %to make of their memories a gift to the world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GIRL OF SIX FROM THE GHETTO BEGGING IN SMOLNA STREET IN 1942, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: She had nothing %but eyes to grow up to Last Line: With a jewish accent %of hunger %so she died Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GOD HID HIS FACE, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the roads led to death, %all the roads Last Line: All the heavens. %god hid his face Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GOD'S DEATH, by FLORENCE WALLACH FREED Poem Source First Line: During the holocaust %along with the six million Last Line: Banishes %himself %from the universe %forever %I say %forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GOETHE'S TREE, by ANNIE DAWID Poem Source First Line: Red triangle covers %left breast pocket Last Line: And wrote some of his most %beautiful poetry' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GOVERNESS, by EVELYN WEXLER Poem Source First Line: I know what I am not Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRANDFATHER IN WINTER, by FREDERICK FEIRSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The overcoats are gone from central park Last Line: Be sung. It is the eve of war again: %shema Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRAY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The gray - %an indeterminate area Last Line: So that we gain a day of almost peace Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRIEF-STRICKEN HEART, by S. SHENKER Poem Source First Line: Why is my heart so wrenched with grief Last Line: Perhaps because the time has come %for kaddish to be said Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRODSKY THE COBBLER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Near the delmar loop in st. Louis Last Line: Shoes he maintains nonetheless, %in case he needs to make another hasty escape Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoes GUIDE ME FROM THIS SAFE HARBOR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The heroes of our people are not always law-givers Last Line: Thought of you pulls me from my safe drift %toward the future. Once more I hunger Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GYPSY SONG, by DAVID BEIGELMAN Poem Source First Line: The night is dark, %as dark as ink Last Line: We go unfed: %no crust of bread Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HAD MY MOTHER LIVED, by ISRAEL EMIOT Poem Source First Line: Had my mother lived, by now she'd surely be Last Line: And off we'd wander to her golden land Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HANDS: ABRAHAM KUNSTLER, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: Cursed with a body Last Line: Above the flower vase original. %the effect greatly pleases me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HARBACH 1944, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: At all times I see them Last Line: Its gates flung savagely back, %death gapes to its hinges Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii HARRY LENGA: 1. KOZIENICE, POLAND 1939, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: We had a rabbi which was named the kozienicer rabbi Last Line: And they light it, and the fire was burning, %and they told them to dance and sing happy songs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HARRY LENGA: 2. DEPARTURE 1940, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: My mother she won't leave her mother Last Line: Then she kissed me goodbye. %it was the second night of sukkoth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HARRY LENGA: 3. AUSCHWITZ, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: Fourteen hours, and suddenly Last Line: And they're laughing. For so long we never stopped laughing.%we see we're alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HARRY LENGA: 4. EBENSEE, AUSTRIA, MAY, 1945, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: The ones what gave up - it's like a signal to their bodies Last Line: The jews, in such weak voices, skeletons of jews from everywhere, %singing hatikvah Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HATCHET LEAPS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: On a black road between dark houses Last Line: Yes, see, he floats! He flies gracefully, %held by the pulse of the couple's brazen dance Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HE COMES FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY, 1942, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the german came, they knew he would take them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Terror; Shoah HE WAS LUCKY, by ANNA SWIR Poem Source First Line: The old man %leaves his house, carries books Last Line: Under him he feels %the books Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HE WEARS OLD SOCKS, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source Last Line: Not knowing %where the others lie Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HEADING EAST, by DAVI WALDERS Poem Source First Line: This land I've so long known and loved Last Line: Bear witness ... Remember ... Treblinka Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HEARING OF REAGAN'S TRIP TO BITBURG, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As maples turn the size of babies' hands Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HERITAGE, by HAYIM GOURI Poem Source First Line: The ram came last of all. And abraham Last Line: They are born with a knife in their hearts Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HERR CAPTAIN, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I whispered as he came through the gate Last Line: He brings me soap %his boots are shiny %not like the others who arrive from the fields %crusted over Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HERR CLEMENT OF BUENOS AIRES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: You scrawny, gaunt, arrogant bastard Last Line: Into which we'll cast your ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HIDING, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: It was all so long ago Last Line: That we are free, %free to be Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HIMMLER AT AUSCHWITZ, 1942, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: A dim image of heinrich himmler Last Line: Contemplating the colossal possibilities of his revelation Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HINDENBURG, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: This early showpiece of the thousand Last Line: Before, behind, and in each direction, %stretching for far more than a thousand years Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HINTS OF HOLOCAUST, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The partitioning of the levite's concubine Last Line: For tolerating liquidation or incineration %of any of god's persecuted children Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women - Bible HISTORY, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I came to a field Last Line: Honor loss let me see memory's %darkest web Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HISTORY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But in the myth, at the beginning of our world Last Line: And if she's naked now, then wat is there to take off %next?%and then what will love do? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HISTORY AND REALITY, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped from germany Last Line: When - outside - truth was only words Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLLOW COST, by JOAN JOBE SMITH Poem Source First Line: My mother told me about the hollow cost Last Line: Than all the stars in the sky %on a clear, winter night Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And about burning people - Last Line: A rapid, persistent / chemical / reaction Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism HOLOCAUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And about burning people - Last Line: Chemical %reaction Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST 1944, by ANNE RANASINGHE Poem Source First Line: I do not know %in what strange far off earth they buried you Last Line: Blessed be the lord Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST, SELECTION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jews from holland, france, and hungary, and later from greece Last Line: And there were two pyres of bodies burning all the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Concentration Camps HOLOCAUST, SELS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the second world war began Last Line: He was gone in the woods Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST, SELS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, among the transports, was one with children - two freight cars full Last Line: And then the child who had been so gay %burst into tears Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST, SELS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jews from holland, france, and hungary, and later from greece Last Line: And there were two pyres of bodies burning all the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST: 8. CHILDREN, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, among the transports, was one with children - two freight cars full Last Line: Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945); children; Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Children HOME MOVIE OF POLAND, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: A picnic table. The family assembles Last Line: Unreal as the light %that blinks in our eyes after hours of darkness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOMELESS, by JOAN JOFFE HALL Poem Source First Line: At a jewish wedding Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW CAN I SEE YOU, LOVE, by DAVID VOGEL Poem Source Last Line: As my father once guided me %to the house of prayer Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW COOL, HOW VELVET-GREEN, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How cool, how velvet - green %the moss was in those polish woods Last Line: No more than cataracts %on the blind eyes of god Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW EARLY FALL CAME THIS YEAR, by JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Between the rows %of tomato plants Last Line: Shaping a world out of %lightning and ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW THEY KILLED MY GRANDMOTHER, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: How did they kill my grandmother? Last Line: That's how they did it to her Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW TO READ HOLOCAUST POEMS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The sun beats down Last Line: Only one's hunger %to waken Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW?, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: How will you fill your goblet Last Line: Like a mole, a mole Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HUNGARIAN MEDICAL STUDENT: 1928, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: Perhaps he is of medium height Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Medical Students HUNGARIAN MISSION, by RUTH LISA SCHECHTER Poem Source First Line: I forged I.D.'s to rescue jews Last Line: I passed out after shouting: 'I have been to russia!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I AM A STAR, by INGE AUERBACHER Poem Source First Line: Only 'special' children wear a star Last Line: No-one can break my spirit or will! I am a star! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I AM BABI YAR, by GINGER PORTER Poem Source First Line: My gold six-pointer star Last Line: A sorrowful spirit, %a tesatimonial. %I am babi yar Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I AM LYING IN THIS COFFIN, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I am lying in this coffin %as I would lie Last Line: My speech %still moves into song Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I AWAIT YOU, by JACOB DANIEL-LEVITZ Poem Source First Line: As a pious jew %awaits messiah Last Line: Does life have, %life without you? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I BELIEVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I believe in the sun Last Line: I believe in god %though he is %silent Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I DID NOT KNOW, BUT I REMEMBER, by TAMARA FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I can hear the clatter of the cattle cars Last Line: A part of me is dead and buried %in the grave of millions Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I DID NOT MANAGE TO SAVE, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source Last Line: Even if I am too late Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I FEEL LIKE SAYING A PRAYER, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I feel like saying a prayer -- but to whom? Last Line: Senseless, I begin to babble %until dawn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I HEAR THAT THE AXE HAS FLOWERED, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear that the bread which looks at him Last Line: I hear that they call life %our only refuge Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I KEEP FORGETTING, by LILY BRETT Poem Source Last Line: What a good memory %you have %people tell me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I LIVE ON THE WEST SIDE, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I live on the west side, %the sun sets here Last Line: Venus? %it's a frozen tear of my people Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I MUST TELL THE STORY, by EMILY BORENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I press my face to the pane of death to witness Last Line: The single long note of the shofar sounding in the houses %of the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I NEVER KNEW I WAS JEWISH, by IRENE RETI Poem Source First Line: My mother, was born jewish Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I REMEMBER COMING INTO WARSAW, A CHILD, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Out of sheer, sunlit countryside Last Line: And willing their sounding and resounding remains Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Warsaw Ghetto I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Shoah; Judaism I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Last Line: Appeared mysteriously, %tattooed on your arm Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I SAW MY FATHER DROWNING, by DAVID VOGEL Poem Source Last Line: Under the sky's canopy &studded with silver Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I WAKE FROM A DREAM OF KILLING HITLER, by MARK NEPO Poem Source First Line: I have no numbers on my forearm Last Line: Old prayers like knuckles broken %old prayers like bone resin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I WAS NOT PRIVILEGED, by AARON ZEITLIN Poem Source First Line: I left betimes, and god protected me Last Line: Nor have I the capacity to lose my mind Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I WAS NOT THERE, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: The morning they set out from home Last Line: It would have made no difference Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I YEARN, by LERKE ROSENBLUM Poem Source First Line: I yearn for the laugh, free and open Last Line: To find myself free on the earth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I'D LIKE TO STOP, by RACHEL H. KORN Poem Source First Line: Someday I'd like %to stop at a house Last Line: Only me %and my woe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I'LL FIND MY SELF-BELIEF IN A DUSTPUFF OF WONDER, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in maidanek woods %finished it off with a few shots Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I'M CHUGGING INTO FRANCE, by JULIA STEIN Poem Source First Line: How the jewish children sang %on the train chugging into france Last Line: Bin bam bin bam bin bam Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I, THE SURVIVOR, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: I know of course, it's simply luck Last Line: And I hated myself Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I. L. PERETZ AND BONTSHE SHVAIG IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, by ELIEZER GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: At twilight, when the final rays are shed Last Line: She found a yiddish poet - setting down the dream he had Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ICON, by EPHIM FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Surely those eyes are of marble Last Line: And millions of aryan children %will contemplate his eyes, his dispassionate hands, his monocle Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IDENTIFICATIONS, by PERETZ KAMINSKY Poem Source First Line: From shadows such as these I shape my songs Last Line: They sound like looming thunder in my head, %whispering the names of our sixmillion dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IF, by EDWARD BOND Poem Source First Line: If auschwitz had been in hampshire Last Line: Or cease to be human Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IF NO TRACE OF MY PEOPLE SHALL BE FOUND, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: If no trace of my people shall be found Last Line: Don't hear the shot I am about to take Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN BIALYSTOK'S GHETTO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In bialystok's gray ghetto, a cry of anguish wakes - Last Line: How long before they're back?' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN BLACK RAIN, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Some nights only leaves talk Last Line: Forty years have scattered %but, in black rain, you burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN CALIFORNIA I HEARD, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In california I heard %the lament of the mourning - dove Last Line: I heard the lament %of a dove Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN HER DIARY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zofia nalkowska writes in her diary on april 14, %1943, when the germans were Last Line: Scream of horror comes from, the defense of the %peculiar place of man begins Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN HIDING, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Once, in hiding, we went open Last Line: A lonely sleigh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Sanctuaries IN MEMORY OF AARON, MURDERED GRANDFATHER, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source First Line: He who shot my maternal grandfather, aaron Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN MEMORY OF JANUSZ KORCZAK, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: What did the old doctor do Last Line: That was how fast they had to go grey as ash Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN MY OWN NIGHTMARES, by MARI ALSCHULER Poem Source First Line: I stand out in each nightmare Last Line: All angles. %a swastika turning %as you dream Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN MYSTERY VEILED, by MAMIE OZBURN ODUM Poem Text First Line: Must our halls of heaven fling wide Last Line: To lose our birthright and our heritage. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mystery; Torture; Shoah; Judaism IN PRAG, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yon hauf-daith, %bloatit wi oor skookit virr Last Line: Doon whilk we swam, jist twa swevins, ringin %agin thi time,doon thi squers Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic; Scottish Translations IN PRAGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That half-death Last Line: Against time, in the squares Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic IN PRAGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half of death %suckled along with our life Last Line: Tolling %against time, on the sqaures Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF IZIEU, by ARLENE MAASS Poem Source First Line: French cognac 1944 is death Last Line: The children of izieu %gathered unto their fathers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN SAXONY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little girl with blond braids Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism IN SAXONY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little girl with blond braids Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN SOME OF THE BUNKS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: And some of their eyes wree %closed and that was worse Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN TERRIBLE DAYS, by CHANA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: My singing was born during terrible days - Last Line: And lift the great legacy high! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Last Line: The footsteps die was he dies Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Concentration Camps; Shoah; Judaism IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE CHILDREN'S HOME, by AVROM ZAK Poem Source First Line: Children in little white camp - beds Last Line: Mothers in ovens - cold ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE DUNGEON, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: As always: the gloom wants to smother me quite Last Line: To thrust at a throat less than thirty years old Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE HEAVEN OF NIGHT, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: Chagall's villages float across the room Last Line: That floats across the room %and curls in the heaven of night Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: After the end of the world Last Line: It was a voice of another man Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INCANTATORY CHANT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: On my own out here Last Line: That mercy and peace are yet worshiped elsewhere Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INDEPENDENCE DAY: EUREKA, by CORNEL ADAM LENGYEL Poem Source First Line: Celebrating a fourth of july in eureka Last Line: Leafless among the rocks, still fed by a spring of light, %israel shall send green shoots to the sun Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INNOCENCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He ran the course and as he ran he grew Last Line: As melting quietly by his boots it fell Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Innocence; Jews INNSBRUCK: ON THE GOETHE WAY, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: In the snowmelt of postwar austria Last Line: Domed above them, the sky is gold-tooth %yellow, fragile as an infant's skull Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INSCRIPTIONS: 1944-1956, SELS., by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the strong, sweetness; Last Line: And out of these who met only with hate, %a people of love, a compassionate people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INTERROGATION, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Dogs peeing. O pavlova: in the mausoleum Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INVISIBLE, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: It was %essential Last Line: Didn't %exist Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INVOCATION TO KALI: 3. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Have we managed to fade them out like god? Last Line: Walked the pavane of death in our new shoes, %sweated with anguish and remembered god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mythology; Women IRT AT RUSH HOUR, by CHRISTOPHER MILLIS Poem Source First Line: They must have died like this at auschwitz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ISAAC AND MAE (LOS ANGELES, 1955), by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You are perfect in all ways, but one Last Line: The silence of the house, listening to the wind shriek once, then become calm Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Marriage ISHMAEL FISHMAN, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: What manner of obscene beasts are these horrific nightmares Last Line: With an answer to the riddle of the leviathan's witness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JANUSZ KORCZAK, by BELLA DIZHUR Poem Source First Line: I did not grow up on narrow ghetto streets Last Line: I want it to have happened %on an earth cleansed of evil Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEW'S LOVE FOR LANGUAGE, by CHAIA ZBLOCKI HELLER Poem Source First Line: You convert, you expel, %you exterminate Last Line: The bangings of books, %the clatter of pearls Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWISH BABY IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, 1941, by LEATRICE H. LIFSHITZ Poem Source First Line: To see her gain, %the little baby Last Line: So little %so much Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWISH CHILD, by CHANEH HAITIN Poem Source First Line: In a lithuanian town %there's a house that stands alone Last Line: To the mercy of the nile, %she has left her only child Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWISH MOUTHS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Don't you see, it iss the mouth Last Line: Mouths bathed in acid scalded %by knowledge of god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWISH SINGLES EVENT, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: Here are those who are challenged by Last Line: Their branded arms embrace us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JEWS THAT WE ARE, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: March 1979 and I am watching nazis Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JONATHAN'S SONG, by OWEN DODSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am part of this Last Line: The numbered flesh that was left %went to the flames Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JUDITH, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: Where is dew? Where is sand? Where is the moon? Where a star? Last Line: Now you must wander and no longer know %where your homeland is Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JUGS, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the long tables of time Last Line: And do not flow over like you or like me Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JULIEK'S VIOLIN, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dank halls of buchenwald Last Line: Naked and questioning Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism JULIEK'S VIOLIN, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dank halls of buchenwald Last Line: Juliek plays on. %and the children, %as if in answer, %burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JUNE 22ND, by ROCHEL BOIMVOLL Poem Source First Line: I went outside, I simply shut the door Last Line: Within my breast is now a lion's roar Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JURY DUTY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: In a large room Last Line: How long before I am myself again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KADDISH, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: It is dark and Last Line: On the steel plate of the horizon %a faint exquisite light begins to glow Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KADDISH, SELS., by MELANIE KAYE-KANTROWITZ Poem Source First Line: And when I told the woman - a survivor, a fighter in the warsaw ghetto Last Line: Cracow %covner-gberna %warsaw %these were once jewish sounds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KAUNAS 1941, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Town, %branches over the river Last Line: My dark is already come Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prussia; World War Ii KITTY RETURNS TO AUSCHWITZ, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: A woman returns to auschwitz Last Line: No brandenburg there, %just wind of the great nothing Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory KOL NIDRE, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: All the vows %and all the promises not kept Last Line: Perhaps even to love them Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Yom Kippur KRISTALLNACHT, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: Blackness %broken by streamers Last Line: That will become eternal %nightmares Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KS, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: We walk under the empty tower, snow Last Line: But we must learn the signs: they hungered, %they were cold,and in dachau it was always winter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KZ-ORATORIO: DARK HEAVEN, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: And on into the morning when he was beaten to death Variant Title(s): Fable; Fabl Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LA PATHETIQUE, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: I put on la pathetique Last Line: For disaster %and %couldn't be disturbed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LADY LAZARUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have done it again Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women; Shoah; Judaism LADY LAZARUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done it again Last Line: I rise with my red hair %and I eat men like air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women LAMENT FOR THE GYPSIES, by JULIUS BALBIN Poem Source First Line: Their home was the endless Last Line: What they believed-- %that peoples should not be divided by frontiers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAMENT FOR THE SOULS OF JEWISH CITIES, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Souls of jewish cities, %wrapped in the parchments of eternity Last Line: Till your last breath, %if you can Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: To a nocturne accompaniment Last Line: Voice bears witness: %one life is history enough to mourn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LANDSCAPE OF SCREAMS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night when dying proceeds to sever all seams Last Line: Hung up to be dried by god %in the cosmos Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LANTERNMAN, by MARINA ROSCHER Poem Source First Line: Every evening without fail he Last Line: Good to think of ladders to heaven instead %of the gas-flame Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST CRADLESONG, by KEHOS KLIGER Poem Source First Line: Child, on the other side of the door Last Line: Shut forever your angel - eye - %husha, hushabye Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST LULLABY, by FREIDL TROFIMOV Poem Source First Line: Lie quiet now, dear child of mine Last Line: While, a hunted thing, I wander %lonely through the land Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST OF A DYING BREED, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens naked from a dead sleep Last Line: A masturbator - the last of his family line Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST ONE, THE FIRST ONE, by ISAAC E. RONCH Poem Source First Line: Heads bowed low in sympathy Last Line: I am not what I was in other years Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST POEM, by JIRI ORTEN Poem Source First Line: Darkness stares from everywhere and no one's here Last Line: I ask and ask these songs for information! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST TRAIN TO AUSCHWITZ, by LOIS VAN HOUTEN Poem Source First Line: The train: long, black, rain-splattered Last Line: The lord our god is one god. %if I forsake thee...' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST VISA FOR PALESTINE, by ELAINE MOTT Poem Source First Line: For my cousin, gitl frost Last Line: The mirrors have flown to the sky. The rivers %have carried away our breath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LATE TRAIN, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's it like? Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY PASTORAL, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT Poem Source First Line: Not far from belsen the countryside Last Line: The other god %knows where Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAF, TREELESS FOR BERTOLT BRECHT, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What times are these Last Line: Because it includes %so much made explicit? Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAN SONNET, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Rain this time of year Last Line: To spare the near white space Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEARNING THE ROPES. CUSTER ST., EVANSTON, 1949 (VERSION 2), by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Showering, I see more than the single showerhead Last Line: We rescue each stuffed animal %this time we will get away with our lives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAVE US, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Forget us %forget our generation Last Line: Don't enquire about our youth %leave us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAVING A COUNTRY BEHIND, by CAROLYN KREITER-FORONDA Poem Source First Line: Rain over munich, you plane's Last Line: Cracking its windows %when the synagogue towered %in flames Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAVING YOU, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: It has taken me Last Line: I have had %trouble %mother %leaving you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LESSON IN OBSERVATION, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pay close attention: the world that appears now Last Line: It blew itself out even before this Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LET EACH BE A FORTRESS!, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Rage in the bells of the conscience that's deaf Last Line: Without ever quaking must wake in the hand %our holy jewish weapon! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LET US BE JOLLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let us be jolly and share good jokes Last Line: Biri - bi, bam - bam - bam, %biri - bi, bam - bam - bam Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTER FROM BERLIN, by JON STALLWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, today a letter from berlin Last Line: A turbulent crater; a trench, filled %not with snow only, east of buchenwald Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War LETTER TO A POET, by HERMAN TAUBE Poem Source First Line: Shall you ask: %how long will we continue Last Line: Write! You are our memory! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTER TO DINA, by JOHN BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Why does it take so long Last Line: Into the yar Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTER TO MY WIFE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Down in the deep, dumb worlds are waiting, silent Last Line: The light of 2 x 2 is raining down on me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTER TO VEINNA FROM PARIS, 1942, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Grandmother, %your face is dangerous Last Line: The thin hand of each man %is clasped to fodder Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LIBERATION FROM BUCHENWALD, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens at 5:00 a.M. Last Line: To throw him incorrectably out of step %the rest of his snowy march home Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LIBERATOR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: What he saw he has not forgotten Last Line: Memory floods his chest: each year, %an aneurysm ready to burst Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LIFE GOES ON, by KAREN ALKALAY-GUT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LINE-UP, by DORI KATZ Poem Source First Line: All this is history, the still disputed fate Last Line: If to release myself, I say it wasn't you %speaking to me with broken hands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITHUANIAN GRANDMOTHER, by MERRA YOUNG PROTTENGEIR Poem Source First Line: You stand in your kitchen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE BOY, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Precious jewish child, %you escaped with your laughter Last Line: From those bloodied paths-- %and all would be laughed away, all refuted Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE BOY DREAMING, by LEIVICK HALPERN Poem Source First Line: Little boy, dreaming, %my slumbering dear Last Line: Little boy dreaming, %my slumbering dear? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE BOY WITH HIS HANDS UP, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Your open palms raised in the air Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE LAMB, by PEARL B. SHERIDAN Poem Source First Line: Stars? %there are no yellow stars Last Line: Where are you going, little isaac? %where are you going, little lamb? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE PLACE, by ANNELIESE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: It is always there Last Line: I did not expect the wine %to taste so soft, so flinty Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE RUTH, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I remember you, little ruth Last Line: The conveyor belt stands still. And they stood still. Amen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism LITTLE RUTH, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I remember you, little ruth Last Line: The conveyor belt stands still. And they stood still. Amen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 1. LIVE HENS, APRIL 1940, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens, this tuesday morning Last Line: One, two, three, four, five live hens Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 2. TEMPORARY SOLUTIONS, SEPTEMBER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Something doesn't want this ghetto deciminated Last Line: Year after year, millenniums on end Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 3. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, APRIL, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: As I move exorably toward fifty Last Line: Seeking nonmiracles to let us die anon Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 4. NO CHOICES FOR THE 'CHOSEN', by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Each day the deportations Last Line: Between starvation, freezing, and terminal disease Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 5. MASS EVACUATION, SEPTEMBER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Why, after all these years, decades Last Line: Wishing each other well for the new year Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 6. 'LIBERATION,' JANUARY 19, 1945, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: To have endured, since early '40 Last Line: And he'll wave to his other self as he goes by Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LOAD OF SHOES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: The cartwheels rush Last Line: Transported from vilna %to berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LOST ROSES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I'll go off to seek you; a shovel I'll bring Last Line: That kingdom of night in whose deeps they were drowned Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LOUIE THE TAILOR, by GARY PACERNICK Poem Source First Line: While I stuffed wrapping paper into boxes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LOVERS OF ISRAEL', by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: Reb moishe leib of sossow notes the heaps of ash Last Line: Of the true 'lovers of israel' forever and ever.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LULLABY, by BEZALEL FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: No pillow for your weary head, %no walls to keep you warm. . . Last Line: Mother's tear, her bitterest, %down your forehead runs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LULLABY, by TERESA MOSZKOWICZ-SYROP Poem Source First Line: On a sleepless night Last Line: She used to sng for me: %lulu lul, lulu lul, lulu lul ... Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LULLABY, by CHAVEH ROSENFARB Poem Source First Line: Yesterday I perished %and did not give birth to you, child Last Line: In the graveyard of the present %our graves will never be known Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MAME-LOSHEN, YIDDISH, by BERNARD S. MIKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Long ago %we spoke a mother tongue Last Line: They are ghosts, %once warm and loving syllables: %smoke... Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yiddish MARIA OLT, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: On a hillside in jerusalem Last Line: No, said maria, you must understand, %if you go, I will go with you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MARTYRS ARE CALLING, by BER GREEN Poem Source First Line: The village ruined, its people dead Last Line: Make yourself whole - a new life's to be charted, %oh partisans, oh maccabean-hearted! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MARTYRS ARE CALLING, by BER GREEN Poem Source First Line: The village ruined, its people dead Last Line: Oh partisans, oh maccabean - hearted! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASCHLACKI, by LORA BERG Poem Source First Line: The boys in bellingham like picking raspberries best Last Line: But what was he? Tell, jerzy, how life in this new place %corresponds to us, tell again what happene Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASS GRAVES: 3, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning the jews were line up by an officer Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism MASS GRAVES: 3, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning the jews were line up by an officer Last Line: A thousand bodies would be put on a pyre; %and there wre two pyres of boides burning all the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASSACRE OF THE BOYS, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: The children cried 'mummy! Last Line: With no star in its crown Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASTER GARDENERS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Was it apathy or fear Last Line: To produce so furious and unexpungeable a bloom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MAY, 1945, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the allied tanks trod germany to shard Last Line: So that good and evil may die in equal hope Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEDITATION AFTER HEARING THE RICHARD YARDUMIAN MASS ..., by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Kyrie: last week of a showing of holocaust films. The familiar Last Line: Canticles ride winds %of final peace. %o lamb of god, o lamb of god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEDIUM, by MARC KAMINSKY Poem Source First Line: How do you do, delicate roumanians! Last Line: How close you were %to never having existed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMENTO, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the blackness of that flesh Last Line: To many, in its beak, no dove brought answer Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMORIAL POEM, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes of strangers do not see Last Line: Of a memorial candle, bright %with everlasting praise? Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMORIES OF DECEMBER, by GIZELA SPUNBERG Poem Source First Line: Like a very fine, white dust snow was falling Last Line: For your last walk, you left a message, a legacy: %'tell my daughters, I was not afraid. ...' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMORY, SELS., by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Photograph: families looking of all things shy Last Line: A shade darker than new snow, %than that star I saw watching us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MENDELE, by ISRAEL EMIOT Poem Source First Line: Now the holocaust's done and there's scarcely a jew Last Line: The old jewish custom: hope wakes in my breast Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MERCIFUL GOD, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: Merciful god, %select some other nation Last Line: Take back the godly genius that you gave Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MESSAGE FROM THE PAST FOR THE PRESENT, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: A looming mound %of empty zyklon b canisters Last Line: Such eloquent %refuse Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MIDSUMMER: 38, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The camps held their distance of brown chestnuts and grey smoke Last Line: Since this century's pastorals were already written %at auschwitz, buchenwald, at dachau, at sachsen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MIEMAND, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You with the cross and you without the cross Last Line: Seek absolution in no other place. %come, enter in Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MIKLOS RADNOTI, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Because time is a fiction in the mind Last Line: Wife %the poems are time's wings. Spread them darkly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MILLION PARIS OF SHOES, by AARON KURTZ Poem Source Last Line: A brotherhood of peoples that will arise and walk %that first day %of genesis. -- 1945 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MISERERE, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: I will endow you with a false glow %ghetto Last Line: Instead of these grey ashes %that like a winding sheet settle on shivering europe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOMMA, by JACOB DANIEL-LEVITZ Poem Source First Line: As a leaf tears itself from a tree Last Line: And, momma, you in tears at the departing sleigh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOON IS GOING TO SLEEP, by RIKUDAH POTASH Poem Source First Line: The moon is tired of shining, %my child. - Last Line: Her head lies in a cloud now, %like a drowsing refugee Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MORE LIGHT! MORE LIGHT!', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Composed in the tower before his execution Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism MORE LIGHT! MORE LIGHT!', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Composed in the tower before his execution Last Line: Ghosts from the ovens, sifting through crisp air %and settled upon his eyes in a black soot Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MORNING AT DACHAU, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: In the cellar under dachau Last Line: Smelling of young girls %who run and make love Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOSES REICH, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This sunny june a.M., dazed to the world Last Line: When even death can't deny moses reich his right to die Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOTHER, by JULIAN TUWIM Poem Source First Line: In the cemetery of lodz %in the jewish cemetery Last Line: But the corpse of my name %lies there till this very day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOURNER'S KADDISH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Yitgadal veyitkadash shemei raba %shadows live in the corners of my mind Last Line: Aleinu ve-al kol yisrael, ve-imru amein Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MUNICH, 1955, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Mama, pick me up Last Line: She leaves a dark spot above me %on the ceiling when she takes a bath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MURDER OF A COMMUNITY, by DANIEL WEISSBORT Poem Source First Line: Ordered to strip prior to extermination Last Line: And no progeny to revenge their fallen manhood Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY CURSE, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: My curse - may it fall like a fiery hail in your way Last Line: May no one and nothing accompany it but my curse! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY FATHER USED TO CALL IT CHTSOS, by LEIVICK HALPERN Poem Source First Line: Midnight. My father used to call this hour chtsos Last Line: These monstrous nights of mine, the nights of nineteen - forty Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY FATHER'S LETTERS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father's letters from america %to my mother Last Line: Over the fields of poland winds have blown %the ashes of her bones Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY GIRLFRIENDS, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: Slowly in three to four weeks Last Line: From the gas chamber %to the incinerators Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY HOLOCAUST SONGS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some split ss backbones with axes Last Line: Themselves dying, returning with spring, the bleeding %notes, break down, break down again, my songs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY LITTLE SISTER, SELS, by ABBA KOVNER Poem Source First Line: Far, far %a city lies. Body still warm Last Line: Are concencrated %more than eagles %and angels Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I look for the precious four walls %where you drew breath Last Line: Tree, nest, robin, %and all the rest.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER LOOKS AT ME, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother looks at me with bloodied Last Line: In may, when the spring winds come Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER SANG ME A POLISH SONG, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother sang me a polish song Last Line: My mother sang me the polish song - %in her eyes was heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER'S FRIEND, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: My mother %had a schoolfriend Last Line: And hurled herself %from the top %of a bank Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY PRAYER TO THE CHIMNEY, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning I offer a prayer %to the chimney Last Line: O don't cave in, %my god! Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY SISTER CHANEH, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the green grass, %behind the high hill Last Line: The white, gray ash %of chaneh, my sister Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY SON, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My son, %how the red shirt adorns you! Last Line: My son, %how the red shirt adorns you! Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY UNCLE IN TREBLINKA, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle, man of science in berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NAKED BOY, by CHAIM GRADE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Creator of the world in all its diverse forms! Last Line: Around treblinka's altar, where the fire is out Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NAME OF A PLACE, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source First Line: Here the taste of ashes Last Line: And the taste of ashes %stays in the mouth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NAMES THE DEAD SPEAK, by SHARON KESSLER Poem Source First Line: My father, who loves my mother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NAZI IN THE DOCK, AT SIXTY, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: Incensed, he clutches at his innocence Last Line: To bits of hair and wire, acrid smells %of something in his skin he can't recall Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NECESSARY ATAVISM, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens, this dreary, rain-blasted day Last Line: Archaeopteryx frantically ripping apart his entrails and heart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NETWORK OF ROADS, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: The old village roads are the landscape's fine sinuous net Last Line: Where all our roads will some day end Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Roads; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering NEVER SHALL I FORGET, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Never shall I forget that night Last Line: As long as god himself. %never Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NEW LULLABY, by MOISHE BRODERSON Poem Source First Line: Dolly, dolly, dolly dear, %don't you shed a single tear! Last Line: Dolly, dollykins - good night! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NEW TANAGER / NEW SONG, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: A storm last night worthy of sinai Last Line: In a couple of eons, we, too, might sprout wings Subject(s): Birds; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Tanagers NIGHT AND RAIN, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY Poem Source First Line: Husha - husha, night and rain Last Line: Sleep you, safe and warm! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHT OVER BIRKENAU, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: Night again. Again the grim sky closes Last Line: Fog descends over birkenau Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHT RAY, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one Last Line: I am lighter: %in front of strangers I sing Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHTMARE, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: She and her parents escaped, but she still whispers Last Line: Everything, all, as weightless as compressed air Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHTSONG, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strangers' eyes don't see Last Line: And that shining gift, an eternal deathday light %forever flickering? Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Variant Title(s): Memorial Poe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NINETEEN-FORTY FIVE, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father's skin Last Line: A rare comb Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nuclear War; World War Ii NO WEEPING!, by DAVID HOFSHTEIN Poem Source First Line: I see - %you are wholly in blood Last Line: And survive - %pays! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT A DREAM, JUST THOUGHTS, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: The child is the only one awake. She decides not to kill Last Line: I tell you, I did not create the war. %when I arrived. The war was already there Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT A SOUND; THE NIGHT IS STARRY, by HIRSH GLIK Poem Source First Line: Not a sound; the night is starry Last Line: The liberty for which we die and dare! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT DACHAU, by AARON MILLER Poem Source First Line: It is with curiosity, finally Last Line: As if this were atlantis, %not dachau; a window, %not a mirror Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT ONE SOB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Nations, let there be no crying - Last Line: Good as any times we've known Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT ONLY IN THE SIX-DAY WAR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: But in the locked ghettos Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOTEH'S SLEEP-SONG, by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: I sing myself a sleep - song: %'sleep, sleep, you lonesome man Last Line: It was your fate to be buried %in far uzbekistan.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NUMBERS, by NORAH REAP Poem Source First Line: I met you as a child Last Line: Though we knew little of the journeys that brought us %together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NUMINOUS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are walking a sidewalk in a german city Last Line: A hundred hearts %beating in the air. %beautiful blue-gray pigeons. %we will always remember Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O SISTER, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O sister, %where do you pitch your tent? Last Line: You drink its blood Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And israel's body as smoke through the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And israel's body in the smoke through the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O THE NIGHT OF THE WEEPING CHILDREN!, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That no one will comb again Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OATH, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: We take the oath in the shadow of candles Last Line: They burn and burn and are not consumed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OBSCENE ECHOES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Heading to the local restaurant for breakfast Last Line: My ears can hear all this distance from tubingen, %heidelberg, dusseldorf, berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OIL OF HER HANDS, by MARK NEPO Poem Source First Line: I wonder about rifkah, my grandmother's sister Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OLD MAN ROSENBLATT: DRESDEN, LONDON, ST. LOUIS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: A man stands at the heart of an intersection Last Line: Late to his funeral today Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above my desk / the rabbi of auschwitz Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above my desk %the rabbi of auschwitz Last Line: That is all that god %gave us to hold Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON OPENING A BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I look at them until I feel immune Last Line: Tell this, they're not redeemed. There they lie Subject(s): Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Photography And Photographers ON THE SUBJECT OF ROSES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: All wrapped up in clouds, the powerful demon Last Line: At least, give it a chance to flower' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON THE WALL OF A KZ-LAGER, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Where you have fallen, you stay Last Line: Speechless, speechless, you testify against us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND, by ELAINE MOTT Poem Source First Line: A man straps on her harness Last Line: She floats on the rushing silver light, %the airstream, home Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON WATCHING HERITAGE: CIVILIZATION AND THE JEWS, by DEBORAH HANAN Poem Source First Line: It started outside, my seeing: the air - glass, fallen Last Line: Light to light. Ours, the unlasting moment %when god will be whole again and everyone, good Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ONE DAY MY DAUGHTER WILL LEARN ABOUT ANNE FRANK, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: She'll imagine snow falling Last Line: The world will have turned %so terribly bright Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters ONE LAST TERZA RIMA / ITALIAN TRAIN, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Why, always, this compulsion to explain? Last Line: My father-in-law, my husband, my unsalvageable europe %my terza rima poem, my camoflage Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ONKEL FRITZ IS SITTING, by DAVID KOENIG Poem Source Last Line: Onkel fritz, are you thinking %of the miracle %of standing up again? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OPA THE WATCHMAKER, by ARLENE MAASS Poem Source First Line: Casper ten boom's crime: I will open my door Last Line: Like a camp storeroom full of eyeglasses to the ceiling %from eyes that see the other side to time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ORPHANS, by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: The peacock's gold and the pure white goat Last Line: Dazzling as sorrowful snow - these are %the orphans of my race Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUR FATHER, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: God himself, in all his righteous wrath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUR SEVEN-BRANCHED MENORAH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: Then may we be at peace Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUR SPIRIT IS NOT BROKEN, by JOSHUA ZENDORF Poem Source First Line: No, our spirit is not broken Last Line: Once our chains are torn away! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUT OF THE HOT ASHES, by AVROM ZAK Poem Source First Line: It's often past belief that only I, that I alone Last Line: All, all, six million lives to be accounted for Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OVER CRADLES, by MENACHEM BORAISHE Poem Source First Line: Over the cradles at slumbertime Last Line: Eternity in the minutes before death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OVERLOAD, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: When %the Last Line: Than %a third of the pit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OVID IN THE THIRD REICH, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my work and my children. God Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism OVID IN THE THIRD REICH, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my work and my children. God Last Line: Love. I, in mine, celebrate the love-choir Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PARANOIA FOR BREAKFAST, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: It's a matter of conditioning, nationalistic pride Last Line: Discussing the most expeditious way to dispose of my bones Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PARTISAN SONG, by HIRSH GLIK Poem Source First Line: Never say that there is only death for you Last Line: Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble: 'we are here!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PARTISANS, by CHANAN KIEL Poem Source First Line: Huts still huddle sleeping; %the field - dogs bark in chorus Last Line: Jews with grenades are creeping %out of the deeps of the forest Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PASSION OF RAVENSBRUCK, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: He steps out from the others Last Line: That he forgot to cry out %before he collapsed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii PASSOVER AT AUSCHWITZ, by LAURENCE JOSEPHS Poem Source First Line: Possibly they thought of it Last Line: To the angel death who once, in old bondage %did not forget,but held them more than dear Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Passover PASSOVER NIGHT 1942, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Not a crumb of leavened Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Passover PASSOVER: THE INJECTIONS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds pass over, endless Last Line: We are living in biblical times,' %a woman says Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Passover PATRIARCH OF THE SEDER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Despite his reputation as a tireless job Last Line: And cosmic fear from, his unassailed abundance Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PAUL CELAN: A GRAVE AND MYSTERIOUS SENTENCE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's daybreak and I wish I could believe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism PAUL CELAN: A GRAVE AND MYSTERIOUS SENTENCE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's daybreak and I wish I could believe Last Line: Forever breaking behind the smokestacks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PEACE, HORROR, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: As I stepped out the doorway it was ten o'clock Last Line: Peace hung along the street, a touch of horror too Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PERHAPS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps %today I see dr. Mengele Last Line: Deutsch, deutsch, deutsch' - Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PERHAPS A FRIEND OF ANNE FRANK'S, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: I walk in the blackout, beside the dutch Last Line: And the nazi doctor giggles, 'it won't hurt a bit.' Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PERMANENT DELEGATE, by YURI SUHL Poem Source First Line: My name is jew Last Line: And you will never get rid of me %until the world is hitler-free Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Social Protest PERSPECTIVES ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a terror Last Line: It would be too impolite %to say you do not know yourselves you do not know %others Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PHANTOM HAIKU/SILENT FILM, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I don't write haiku. I'm no good at silence Last Line: A catchall character for luminous and burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PHANTOM SIBLINGS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Wherever my life's path leads me Last Line: That I am still alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PHOTO, KRAKOW 1939, by DONNA REIS Poem Source First Line: You sit in your chair %in a black dress Last Line: Their backs braced against bullets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PHOTOGRAPH OF SURVIVORS, by GAIL NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: It doesn't look like him Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURE POSTCARDS: 1, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: From bulgaria thick, wild cannon pounding rolls Last Line: Or an insect in rotted tree pith, staging its funeral Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURE POSTCARDS: 2, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Nine kilometers from here the haystacks and %houses are burning Last Line: Clouds, bending over Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURE POSTCARDS: 3, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Bloodly saliva hangs on the mouths of the oxen Last Line: Death blows overhead, revolting Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURE POSTCARDS: 4, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I fell beside him; his body turned over Last Line: Blood mixed with mud was drying on my ear Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURES AND STORIES, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: I never knew you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PIGEONS, by BERT MEYERS Poem Source First Line: Wherever I go to find Last Line: They moan and I'm there %and it's still like that Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PIGTAIL, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: When all the women in the transport Last Line: Pulled at school %by naughty boys Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PITCHIPOI, by GEORGE BOGIN Poem Source First Line: After such words %what further words? Last Line: For the poem died in the epigraph. %pitchipoi Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PLAYTHINGS, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Every plaything, my child, hold it precious Last Line: Seven streets full of porcelain faces %in a city with nary a child Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POACHER, by GREGORY ORFALEA Poem Source First Line: He stole us out of our lives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Sanctuaries POEM FOR ANTON SCHMIDT, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: I have properly spoken %hymns for the dead Last Line: For a living man among clockwork robots %and malevolent pup pets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POEM FOR SOPHIE, by DAVID LAMPERT Poem Source First Line: It is simply this Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POEM OF DEATH, by GEORGE MACBETH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And once again the angel of death came Last Line: Covered with mushrooms %close to the roots Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POEMS FOR A DIARY: 1980, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: And when I go up as a pilgrim in winter, to recover Last Line: You're making the sign of the cross. I'm making my pencil its pledge Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POGROM, by PHYLLIS KAHANEY Poem Source First Line: At the church they killed a pig once Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pogroms POLAND, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: What do you want %to go to poland for Last Line: Please %don't go Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POLAND, by DANIEL WEISSBORT Poem Source First Line: There were millions of us, %and millions stayed Last Line: I do not enter into a dialogue with them. %I cannot help them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POMERANTZ UNBURIED IN HIS POEMS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Shakes the earth from his shoulders Last Line: Heart-cries of the shofar spark %from his mouth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PONAR, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: In the world to come, the forests won't have secrets Last Line: Shaded by the forest at ponar Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Vilna (vilnius), Lithuania POOR CHRISTIAN LOOKS AT THE GHETTO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees build around red liver Last Line: And he will count me among the helpers of death: %the uncircumcised Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Warsaw Ghetto POOR CHRISTIAN LOOKS AT THE GHETTO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees build around red liver Last Line: And he will count me among the helpers of death: %the uncircumcised Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PORTRAIT OF A HOUSE DETECTIVE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: He lolls in the supermarket Last Line: Wittler, hittler, or something like that Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PORTRAIT WITHOUT A FACE: 1. AN OLD TREE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Death cracks his knuckles Last Line: A few splinters %lodge in my hair Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PORTRAIT WITHOUT A FACE: 2. THE BANNER, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: A light swings, lit Last Line: Yakov! %I want you back! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PORTRAIT WITHOUT A FACE: 3. A DOG LICKS MY FACE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source Last Line: That burns green %in the rain Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSSESSIONS OF THE RICH, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: The %rich Last Line: You %were Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTCARDS: CSERVENKA, OCTOBER 6, 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Nine miles from here Last Line: Bends to the clouds and drinks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTCARDS: MOHACS, OCTOBER 24, 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Bloody drool hangs on the mouths of the oxen Last Line: Death blows overhead, disgusting Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTCARDS: SZENTKIRALYSZABADJA, OCTOBER 31, 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I fell next to him. His body rolled over Last Line: Dark filthy blood was drying on my ear Variant Title(s): Postcard (found On His Body After He Was Killed By The Nazis Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTHUMOUS REHABILITATION, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: The dead have remembered Last Line: The dead will not rehablitate us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRAYER, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, %let me drink once more Last Line: Let me drink once more %the scent of your grasses Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRETTY SOON, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Pretty soon %when people hear a quiz show expert Last Line: Who have always gotten themselves talked about: %they really attract attention Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRINCESS IN A BUTCHER'S SHOP, by JOHN MILLETT Poem Source First Line: Old mrs lowenstein practiced survival Last Line: At his 'beautiful fathers'. She remembers %a lung that did not cry out or breathe Variant Title(s): Rachae Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRIPET MARSHES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of my jewish friends and seize them as they are Last Line: I sink down as though drugged or beaten Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS MAY 14, 1948, NEW YORK CITY, by FLORENCE WALLACH FREED Poem Source First Line: The headmaster addresses the assembly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine; Shoah; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Last Line: And that is how you die. And that is how you die Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine PSALM, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one moulds us again out of earth and clay Last Line: Over, o over %the thorn Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews QUEEN ESTHER AWARD, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: In the most inconceivable places Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews QUIET DESPERATION, by MIKE FRENKEL Poem Source First Line: My parents endured %the nazi death blitz Last Line: And burned, %now plays an occasional %listless bagatelle Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RACE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The giant walked %always before me Last Line: Back against %my mouth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RACE, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: When I returned to my home town Last Line: By hating people for their race Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RACHEL (RACHEL [RA'CHAL,] A EWE), by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We named you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism RACHEL (RACHEL [RA'CHAL,] A EWE), by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We named you Last Line: Known as %rachel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REAL CHOCOLATE, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: They lured me out of the barracks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REBECCA 1942, by R. M. COOPER Poem Source First Line: We stole a glass and hung the canopy Last Line: Blessed thou,' 'as the stars,' %and 'grow old.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REBECCA 1944, by R. M. COOPER Poem Source First Line: It's only one nightmare - a girl returns Last Line: Inside that barred darkness. %part of her survived Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RECKONING, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the hour of reckoning Last Line: Upon the fingers of your outstretched hand %the reckoning will stand Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RECORDING HISTORY, by GAIL NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Out of the dark theatre into sunlight Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RED CROSS TELEGRAM, by LOTTE KRAMER Poem Source Last Line: Your calvary of nails %and gas and graves Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REFORGER, by MIRIAM OFFENBERG Poem Source First Line: I don't want to go Last Line: Feeling their helplessness %feeling the guiltness %of my being alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: 1 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Last Line: Looking for you and me, my dear, looking for you and me Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii REHEARSAL AT TEREZIN, by DARCY GOTTLIEB Poem Source First Line: Listen. %what's happening here at terezin Last Line: Now we can laugh at allen's joke Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REMEMBERING DRESDEN, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: British reconnaissance planes Last Line: Afterwards her feet were amputated Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know the story. The children Last Line: Darkening all our skies Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Children; Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Childhood; Dead, The; Shoah; Judaism RENYA'S BABY, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Afterwards %you Last Line: Another %mother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REQUIEM, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Your names ring clearly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REQUIREMENT, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: Having avoided fatal accidents Last Line: Not the winds, %not even you, not even you! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RESIDUALS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: My stomach tells me: I'm hungry Last Line: Residuals from other times, %other places, %other circumstances Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RESISTANCE, by SUSAN DAMBROFF Poem Source First Line: I am built of my thoughts Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RETURN, by DORI KATZ Poem Source First Line: The light I turn on to remember you these days Last Line: You are a light behind that kitchen window now, %behind that glass - a light that comes and disappea Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RETURN, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Suddenly the window will open Last Line: That people are at each %other's throats Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RETURN TO TEREZIN?, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Would I return to terezin today Last Line: I do not want to die %in terezin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REVEILLE, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the brutal nights we used to dream Last Line: The strange command: 'wstawac' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RIDDLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From belsen a crate of gold teeth Last Line: The moon will remember the skin. %but who killed the jews? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RITES AND CEREMONIES: 1. THE ROOM, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, adonoi, author of all things Last Line: And he has heard me out his holy hill Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROADS, by PETER HUCHEL Poem Source First Line: Choked sunset glow Last Line: Humming cloth of flies %closed over wounds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROLL CALL, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He stands, stamps a little in his boots Last Line: Without me: here for eternity Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROSE OF BLUE FLESH, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Facing a long byzantine city wall Last Line: Everyone is born with a blue rose number on the flesh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROSES AND THE GRAVE, by VERA WEISLITZ Poem Source First Line: Someone, perhaps a friend Last Line: Here are no roses %and %you have no grave Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROSH HASHANAH FOR A SURVIVOR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Auschwitz-sounds resound in his throbbing head Last Line: Not for his own lonely soul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROTTERDAM - 1946, by THOMAS A. GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: In this grey vault Last Line: The numbed flesh that was left %went to the flames Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SACRIFICE, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: Her purple shoes know the way, and the metal band on her ankle knows it Last Line: But she does not know it Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SANITY, by BETTY WISOFF Poem Source First Line: Jack, I never knew you Last Line: All of my days. I must do mundane things %for the sanity of my days Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SAVING THE CHILDREN, by FRIEDA SINGER Poem Source First Line: They had taken away Last Line: To care for the children %the promise that kept her %and them alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCAR - AUGUST, 1934, by HANS JUERGENSEN Poem Source First Line: The clearing ahead shimmered Last Line: That's all I can remember %... Over thirty years ago. %--1966 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCARECROW ON A CRUCIFIX, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He, a fleshly scarecrow Last Line: Until they've reduced him to the field he's been assigned - %this ghettoed golgotha Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 1. (HANDIWORK / GLORY), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Dare I begin: a song of jacqueline? Last Line: Our own extraneous efforts at creation Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 10. (SNOW PSALM, TO THE CONDUCTOR), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: For this, we'll need our doves again Last Line: Its feathers' shallow plunge, its startled coo Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 11. (DEAD MAN'S PRAISE), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Yakov glatstein already %used this verse in a poem Last Line: Have liked, even for %an instant, to live forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 12. (SCIENCE PSALM), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Scientific evidence is nothing to rabbis Last Line: I'd like something that will last Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 2. (PURE SILVER / SEVEN TIMES), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Let's pretend, for an instant, we're not degraded Last Line: And sift it through the heavens seven times Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 3. (THRONES AND PSALMS), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: This is the way I like to think of him Last Line: All he wanted was a little praise Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 4. (DARKNESS / WINGS), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I'll tell my daughter %don't be afraid Last Line: Don't be afraid %it's only god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 5. (PSALM 37 AT AUSCHWITZ), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: All those boys who'd started heder at three Last Line: Just a little longer ... He'll be gone Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 6. (SUDDEN MICHTAM), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: And suddenly what I'm reading is a michtam Last Line: Have already fallen fast asleep Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 7. (MICHTAM / DOVE / DISTANT SILENCE), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Our great rashi says the dove is david Last Line: Falling back, unsure of what they've heard Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 8. (AT THE GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA: PSALM 51), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Is that what he's saying? You can't be sure Last Line: Or prying lips apart to mouth a prayer? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prayer SCATTERED PSALMS: 9. (LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW: PSALM 121), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Was it jonathan edwards who'd repeat, continually Last Line: A lifted eye, a lily of the valley Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prayer SCENE FROM SHOAH, by LUADA SANDLER Poem Source First Line: It is spring, and a boatman is rowing down the river Last Line: But his memory - his memory perished in the camp, %except for the song he is singing Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: Drifting, the ten tribes there, gone forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Relatives; Shoah; Judaism SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: No longer mine. Littering through my fingers, %drifting, the ten tribes, lost forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHINDLERJUDEN, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, having arrived one hour early Last Line: Derives its ancient invocation, shema, yisrael, from god's lips Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHLOMO VOGELSANG: PRAUGE, AUSCHWITZ, ST. LOUIS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This steamy april a.M. Last Line: And let him bequeath the universe his surname's legacy Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHOOL OF MUSIC, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My first lesson: you won't even let me touch Last Line: For the demanding ears of your father %music that is first of all survival Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 1. STRUCK DUMB, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: For a poet who knoww only loneliness Last Line: He's spoken to no one in seven years Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 2. KAPO POET, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: No matter how assiduously Last Line: Each his own death certificate Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 3. NO REFUGE FOR A REFUGEE POET, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Strange how he can be on vacation six days Last Line: From his memory's craggy pits, %poetry's belzec Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 4. TELEOLOGY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Mobile homes and sparsely settled farmhouses Last Line: By making itself heard in desperate survival-verse Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 5. LISTENING TO A VOICE THAT NEVER EXISTED, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He sits in the recording studio with his engineer Last Line: A dead man wrote them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SECOND GENERATION, by MENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT Poem Source First Line: True, we are the children Last Line: As we add defiant sparks %to an eternal fire Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEE, NADIA!, by PAULETTE M. CALLEN Poem Source First Line: Every night I dream of my husband Last Line: Ah! See, nadia! You are wrong. %see! He comes! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEEING THE DOCUMENTARY BY THE BRITISH LIBERATING BERGEN, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bodies like driftwood Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SELECTION, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: He leapt through %the line Last Line: He was %all right Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SELMA ... A POT OF SOUP ... A BOTTLE OF MILK. LODZ, 1938, by KIRTLAND SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Look %how selma holds Last Line: The mark above her brow %that seems %a bullethole-- %what ofthat? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEP-44, by ARNOST LUSTIG Poem Source First Line: I stood in the gypsy camp Last Line: A tune from strauss's die fledermaus %ran through my mind Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEPTEMBER SONG, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism SEPTEMBER SONG, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Last Line: This is plenty. This is more than enough Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War SEPTEMBER WIND, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The september wind repeats my brother yukev's Last Line: To come drink water %and eat bread Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SETTING SANTAYANA ON THE BACK BURNER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Beasts of all species Last Line: Dooms them to future lunacies, %bestial catastrophes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Look how evening comes and around us the barbed-wire-hemmed, wild Last Line: Since I can face neither death nor a life any longer without you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yugoslavia SHABBAT SHALOM, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Shabbat draws nigh Last Line: So that my new week may start %in peace Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHADE OF NIGHT, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: I am a shade Last Line: A blade of sadness, %fallen %on the side of the living Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHADOWS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: O lord of creation! Here townspeople lived Last Line: For this is the ghetto, and here is its street Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHEMA, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who live secure / in your warm houses Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SHEMA, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who live secure %in your warm houses Last Line: Your offspring avert their faces from you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHIP, by YURI SUHL Poem Source First Line: This story the billows will tell the sea Last Line: Till the whole world rings with the tale Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHIPMENT TO MAIDANEK, by EPHIM FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Arrived from scattered cities, several lands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War SHMULIK, by DORA TEITELBOIM Poem Source First Line: In the midst of fields and byroads Last Line: And one child - no more than seven - %with a head of hair that's gray Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOA, by MAIRE MHAC AN TSAOI Poem Source First Line: The old jew on all fours Last Line: The brute on his hind legs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOAH, by EMILY BORENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Under an ominous sky trees uprooted themselves Last Line: It was my mother on her knees chanting the last %shema yisroel of the dying Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOEMAKER'S WIFE, by LOTTE KRAMER Poem Source First Line: She came to us walking, at night Last Line: That mastered all our lives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOWER, by JILL BART Poem Source First Line: It will be a blessing Last Line: I hope it lathers %it feels like stone Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOWER DUTY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This forlorn wednesday morning Last Line: As he rushes out to catch a breath of air Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SIGNAL, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: He awaits a signal of a sort that he thinks cannot be compared Last Line: Fraction of a second is poised on the hair-line edge between being and nonbeing Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SILENT PARTNER, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three meters wide %six meters deep Last Line: Through all the days of my life Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SIMPLE TRUTHS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When a man has grown a body Last Line: Stupidity that gives him breath, gives him life %as we kille them all, as we killed them all Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SINHALA NEW YEAR 1975, by ANNE RANASINGHE Poem Source First Line: The morning of sinhala new year I went to the market Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SITE OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY, RACIAZ, POLAND, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Why care that there's a forest here Last Line: My guess is the bones don't miss them %they know -- don't they? -- who they are Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SITTING THIS ONE OUT, by STEVEN SHER Poem Source First Line: Hours from the ceremony, laying out her dress Last Line: Confinement doesn't end, %flashing caution at the celebration Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SIX MILLION, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: They entered the fiery furnace Last Line: Whose lightning struck the killers? %whose rain drowned out the fires? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SKIN, by SARI FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mother, they say we never really leave you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SLEEP, CHILD, by M. SHENKER Poem Source First Line: Sleep, child, sleep; %not in your bed Last Line: We might have wept %for you together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SMOKE, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the stack of a crematory Last Line: All of us are not there as well Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SMOKE ROSE, by ITTAMAR YAOZ-KEST Poem Source First Line: Smoke %rose %in the garden Last Line: In the cool %of the day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SNOW FALLS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A snow falls in the dusk %and falls Last Line: And will never %again come back Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOAP, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a green jew Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SOAP, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a green jew Last Line: The odor of irish spring, the stench of ivory Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOFTLY, SOFTLY, by SHMERKE KATCHERGINSKY Poem Source First Line: Softly, softly! Let's be silent: %graves are growing here Last Line: Upon your face, %upon your face Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOLITARY ACTS, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And to die Last Line: To sleep a dark rich dreamless sleep %to shelter in me what is left %to strengthen myself for what I Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOMETHING FLOATS UP, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Something floats up from memory Last Line: A live swan that flutters against %our mouths Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY, by INGE AUERBACHER Poem Source First Line: He was a stranger; we had never met Last Line: His presence assured from year to year. %'something to remember me by!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONDERKOMMANDO, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: The sonderkommando %those prisoners Last Line: The %ovens Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG, by J. L. KUBICEK Poem Source First Line: I sing a song of sorrow Last Line: Me and my friend %as we sit, talk %over a cup of coffee Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG ABOUT YIDDISH, by BINEM HELLER Poem Source First Line: The jews are dead; their language is alive Last Line: And does not know that she's been rooted out Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG IS A MONUMENT, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: In the old country our bards Last Line: Song is a monument %song is forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF A JEWISH POET IN 1943, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Am I, then, of all europe's poets, the last? Last Line: The ghetto ablaze, and your kin overseas! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF A SUBSTITUTE MOTHER, by AARON KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Life's gone to ruin and rack - Last Line: Hush, my child, my curse - %such is our universe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF IRON PAUL, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: That while serving as a guard at Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF THE SLAUGHTERED JEWISH PEOPLE, by ISAAC KATZENELSON Poem Source First Line: I looked out of the window and beheld the hands that struck Last Line: Behold the wagons! Ah, behold the agony, the shame! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG WITHOUT A NAME ABOUT A CHILD WITHOUT A NAME, by SIMCHE SNEH Poem Source First Line: A tree on the roadside leans, %leans as if it's crying Last Line: He called - and now lies dead - Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONIA AT 32, by MORRIE WARSHAWSKI Poem Source First Line: The lady never shakes free the ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONNET, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I'd write a simple poem, not overlong Last Line: Why listen to an incoherent heart? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOUNDS FROM THE PAST, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds from the past %revive in my memory Last Line: Last sparks from a congregation %of extinguished jews Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOUVENIRS, by ELIZABETH ROSNER Poem Source First Line: My father is a chocolate hoarder Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPECIAL REPORT ON THE HOLOCAUST, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Six million jews did not die Last Line: To completion ... One million lives %for each burning prong Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Last Line: Now therefore go,' he said, 'and I will be with thy mouth' Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii SPRING, by DAVID HOFSHTEIN Poem Source First Line: Far too wild is this day's wonder, %and for once I can't surrender Last Line: And my hand's a frail defender, %and the sun's an evil wonder Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPRING'S TABLE, by ROCHEL BOIMVOLL Poem Source First Line: The final volley of the war %subsides; unblemished rolls the sky Last Line: Seemed to her a red poppy bloom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPRINGTIME OF A NEO-NAZI, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Spring is any hour Last Line: And a millennium or two to reap all the harvests Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STAR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: She made the star too large Last Line: His own star moved. Star of life. %star of death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STILL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sealed box cars travel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism STILL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sealed box cars travel Last Line: Cor-rect, cor-rect, crash of silence on silence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STONE, by BER GREEN Poem Source First Line: It suddenly opened a mouth, and cried Last Line: And its silence horrifies the lands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STONES FROM MY PAST, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Memories of my holocaust time Last Line: And let the ripples spread %as they will Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STOP ON THE TOUR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: We were led to the edge Last Line: Then one of us coughed: %time was nearly up Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STRENGTH, by LEYB KVITKO Poem Source First Line: The rock is strong - %but steel will crack it Last Line: His glorious deed - %is stronger than death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SUN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: You remember the sun of auschwitz Last Line: As your body, you look into my eyes %and call me with the whole world Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SUN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: You remember the sun of auschwitz Last Line: And call me with the whole world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by RUTH (WASBY) FELDMAN Poem Source First Line: They would have mourned him, dead Last Line: The ones on whom his stubborn shadow fell, %heartily wished him dead and safe in hell Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once more he sees his companions' faces Last Line: Eat, drink, sleep and put on clothes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mourning SURVIVOR, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nimes, august, 1966, and I Last Line: Onward toward the heart %where there is no rest Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by JOHN CHRISTOPHER PINE Poem Source First Line: She learned early that in order to survive Last Line: The earth without even a whitish sliver %of bone to be remembered by Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: I am twenty-four %led to slaughter Last Line: Led to slaughter %I survived Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by BARRY STERNLIEB Poem Source First Line: He stands on the bridge Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER First Line: He knows the depths of smokestacks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SURVIVOR, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: He knows the depths of smokestacks Last Line: The deep oven where his mother baked bread Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SWEET SIXTEEN, by VERA WEISLITZ Poem Source First Line: Behind the wall %I wish I had wings Last Line: The sign of condemnation -- %the yellow star! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SWORD WITH WINGS, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: In dream and in reality you sent the lord of woe Last Line: It was the lord of woe who made my dower %this awesome power Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SYNAGOGUE OF FLORENCE, by LENA LONDON CHARNEY Poem Source First Line: From michelangelo square I feast Last Line: I saw the ark doors open, %display the replaced torahs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SYNOGOGUE IN PRAGUE, by ALAN SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: Killers said %before they used their slide-rules Last Line: In the land of israel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TADZHIO! TADZHIO!, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tadzhio! Tadzhio! %a mother called Last Line: Blonde, golden polish boy, %did you too help slaughter jews? Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TAILOR, by PATRICIA GARFINKEL Poem Source First Line: Ulezalka, ulezalka, %your head, laced with cancerous Last Line: The final stitches in my wedding %dress the thread rose and floated %through the open window Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Marriage; Tailors TAKING LEAVE, by CAROL GANZER Poem Source First Line: When they came %for us, it was Last Line: Your cheek, mother, %your hand waving us %into the street... Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TANKS INTO PLOWSHARES, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Another war has broken out Last Line: Not to learn war anymore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TATTOO, by GREGG SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: My father won't talk about the numbers Last Line: I would scrub the numbers from his arm, %extinguish the fire and give him back his life Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TATTOOS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Even though the incident occurred last week Last Line: To a nazi perpetrator too Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TEACHER MIRA, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: With patches of yellow to cover our bones Last Line: But tall in the dew of the dawn she will tower! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TELL ME, GOOD FRIENDS, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Good friends, %what are we to do? Last Line: Why are you silent? %where are you? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TEREZIN, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In your watercolor, nely silvinova Last Line: And your heart on fire %nely silvinova Variant Title(s): Theresienstadt Poe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TERMINAL SURVIVOR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Another hapless saturday Last Line: Whenever he seeks sleep to escape night's sterile despair Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TERRIFIED MEADOWS, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: My nights are haunted by footsteps Last Line: Only her screams %stabbed the blue vastness. %a long time ago. In a far land Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TESTIMONY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: For if we shoah survivors don't tell, %then who will Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THE BIRD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sang heinrich, I would fly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Reading; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS; TO DONALD JUSTICE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years from now / they will be remembered as heroes Last Line: Continues ceasing and ceasing. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Survival; Shoah; Judaism THE GIFT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1945, when the keepers cried kaput Last Line: Is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE PRIPET MARSHES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of my jewish friends and seize them as they are Last Line: I sink down as though drugged or beaten Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence THERE IS A LAST, SOLITARY COACH, by DAVID VOGEL Poem Source First Line: There is at last, solitary coach about to leave Last Line: For it won't wait Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THERE IS ONE SYNAGOGUE EXTANT IN KIEV, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: They do not talk of loss at babi yar Last Line: So long ago their queen of sabbath fled, %all that's left is kaddish for the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Kiev, Ukraine; Synagogues THERE ONCE WAS A HOUSE, by DORA TEITELBOIM Poem Source First Line: There once was a house on the butchers' street Last Line: His fiddle waits for someone to play Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THERE WAS EARTH INSIDE THEM, AND THEY DUG, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They dug and they dug, so their day Last Line: And on our fingers the rink awakes Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THERE WERE THOSE WHO ESCAPED TO THE FORESTS, by SUSAN DAMBROFF Poem Source Last Line: There were those %who fed each other Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THEY HAVE BEEN MULTITUDES, YEA MULTITUDES, O GOD, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY Poem Source Last Line: Two or three trees left standing amid the fallen timber Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIEF, by ABRAHAM LINIK Poem Source First Line: In the foggy distance Last Line: Bracelets of my youth %and my %dreams Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRD GENERATION, by KATHERINE JANOWITZ Poem Source First Line: And no blight on her Last Line: I gave birth to this crimson flower %from my secret blood Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRD HAND, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: The chopped - off hand that I discovered once upon a time Last Line: By the tomatoes in september nineteen forty - one Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRD-REICH BIRDS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: The birds keep an uneasy peace with people Last Line: My whole body convulses with cold fear; %they have a horrible reputation for breaking treaties Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRST, by ZIAME TALESSIN Poem Source First Line: Sand, harsh as salt, on the palate Last Line: Was clogged to the brim with our slain Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIS IS NOT THE ROAD, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And where is the road? %where is the city? Last Line: Who still deliver me %from the flames Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THOROUGH EARTH, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He moves ahead by fits Last Line: On an unapprehended enemy, %renews her search for the unexterminated Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THOUGHTS UNDER THE GIANT SEQUOIA, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: A shrub of tourists Last Line: For the guns; and greenwalds resting their tanks %in a grove of tamarisks near sharm el sheik Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THREE, by MARTIN STEINGESSER Poem Source First Line: For miroslav kosek, hanus lowy & one bachner Last Line: Pulses %bright yellow, a burr %--your star in the throat of death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THREE CHILDREN, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: Three children, three wretched %worms, are aslumber Last Line: And the stars with their golden glitter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TITANIC, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was %two years old - Last Line: On a beautiful bright day, %like the titanic Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO A LITTLE BOY, by MOISHE SHIMMEL Poem Source First Line: Don't cry, little boy, wipe your tears, things will yet be good Last Line: The hand that seized your father and mother and slaughtered them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO AN ORPHAN, by SARA BARKAN Poem Source First Line: I hear your lament from across the wide sea Last Line: This day - no, this hour! I must act for your sake Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO MAKE SACRED, by REEVE ROBERT BRENNER Poem Source First Line: That the lampshade at yad vashem Last Line: Discomfit jerusalem's profaners %and soften the sacrilege Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO MY MOTHER, by HANNAH SENESH Poem Source First Line: From where have you learned to wipe the Last Line: From where have you learned strength? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters; Women TO MY MOTHER WHO ENDURED, by LILIANE RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: This is the tale Last Line: So that we never forget. %for this our tears %are made of salt Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE END, by JEFFREY A. Z. ZABLE Poem Source First Line: I remember the guns Last Line: Devoured by wind %leaves jabbed into the earth: %this the beginning! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE LEFT, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: You knew %as soon Last Line: Was life %mother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE ONLOOKERS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When our backs are turned Last Line: Who could have been changed %into light Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE SKIES OF ISRAEL, by MEYER CHARATZ Poem Source First Line: Give me, o skies, a bit of space Last Line: Flame where the clouds of israel gather Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE THIN VEIN IN MY HEAD, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I'm entrusting myself completely to the thin vein in my head Last Line: A wind. Grass. The night's concluding star Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TOILET, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Surprisingly %few Last Line: Own %eruption Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TOMATOES, by TERESA MOSZKOWICZ-SYROP Poem Source First Line: Is it possible %do they still exist? Last Line: Wree the juicy, red tomatoes %shining in the sun Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TONIGHT, by JULIUS BALBIN Poem Source First Line: Tonight %the silence of my room Last Line: Shrieking %from the womb %of despair %tonight Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TOURIST, by JANE SCHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: Hard to say why some of us have come this far Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TOWARD A BETTER TOMORROW, by KASRIEL BROIDA Poem Source First Line: In gray, hard times, when winds are fierce Last Line: Is what we believe in; %we know for a fact: it will be! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRACKS VANISHING INTO SUNLIGHT, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: After rain %this world is not Last Line: Untransmuted. Held down under %ash drifts-history's weather Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRADITION OF THE KADDISH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The origins of the kaddish are mysterious: angels are said to Last Line: They are an abiding blessing Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRAIN PASSAGE, by KAREN PROPP Poem Source First Line: Not the train my grandfather escaped Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRAINS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Signed by franz paul stangl, commandant Last Line: Woemn's hair for mattresses and dolls' heads. %treblinka. The trains from treblinka Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by HENRY F. BEECHHOLD Poem Source First Line: Here are the ruins Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MARTIN EDMUNDS Poem Source First Line: Still, when the wind is right Last Line: Could you be the heilige jungfrau %of belsen and birkenau? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: That winter night they were burning corpses Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, 1944, by T. W. PERKINS Poem Source First Line: More of my people died today Last Line: Hear, oh israel, the lord our god, %the lord is one' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not everyone can see the tree, its summer cloud of green Last Line: Book to light, you will see the watermarks of their faces Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Life; Trees TREE OF LIFE, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: In the past, I was a thin sapling Last Line: Into a tree of renewed life Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRILOGY, by CECILE HAMERMESH Poem Source First Line: My grandmother is an ivory chord Last Line: I would rock them %beyond %the storkes of movement Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TSENA TSENA (SECOND GENERATION), by MARILYN MOHR Poem Source First Line: There you are dancing with your child Last Line: This child, this dance, this song %sweeping back the darkness, %tsena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TURKEY TRUCK, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Caught behind a turkey truck Last Line: Back to dachau this gray day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TWILIGHT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Only when he sits on his front stoop Last Line: Filling his nostrils with menstrual stench %from a womb-tombat earth's dead center Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TWO STONES, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stream close by our house %began Last Line: The eyes of my brother - %free now of fear and hope Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews U. S. ARMY HOLDS DANCE FOR CAMP SURVIVORS. GERMANY, 1945, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: We recognize each other, neighbors before the war Last Line: Cracked open behind us, our cellars glow with out youth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ULTIMATE SACRIFICES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday was ash wednesday Last Line: Remember those of the shoah, who rose for no one Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS, TEREZIN, by REVA SHARON Poem Source First Line: It was here jhirka %in that black yesterday Last Line: ... But jhirka %who will ask your questions Subject(s): Death - Children; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UNDER THE PATCH OF YELLOW, by LEIVICK HALPERN Poem Source First Line: Under the patch of yellow %shut your eyelids tight Last Line: As is our yellow patching. %hush now, sleep is best Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UNDRESSING AUNT FRIEDA, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Undressing aunt frieda, I think of how Last Line: I lift her gently, hoping she'll sleep %the hour drive home Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations VALEDICTION FORBIDDING DESPAIR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This summer is treblinka Last Line: And the temporary wish %to rest Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VALEDICTION FORBIDDING DESPAIR, CRACOW GHETTO, 1943, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This summer is treblinka Last Line: Toward memory's ultimate destination, %resurrection Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VICTIM OF THE LIBERATION, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This gray, rainy a.M. Last Line: Without having it descend as zyklon b vapors Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VIEW FROM THE GHETTO, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Here I stand at the edge of the field Last Line: All the dark ones are gone. %they have no one Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VIEWS OF LA LEGGENDA DELLA VERA CROCE, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: How will I ever get this in a poem Last Line: What's that splinter in his upturned eye Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VILLANELLE FROM A SENTENCE IN A POET'S BRIEF BIOGRAPHY, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: In' 42 he was conscripted to work on trains Last Line: In' 42. In czechoslovakia. Trains Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VILNA 1938, by SHELLEY EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: A woman leans in Last Line: Over the threshold, %where would the darkness %lead? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VISIT. AUSCHWITZ, 1971, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Dr. Bronowski stands in the marshes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VOICE FROM THE HEART, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: From the heart of a voice commands : believe Last Line: Death pardons every error, %but slavery it never forgives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VOICES, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Voices mute for ever, or since yesterday, or just stilled Last Line: You'll have to run the last lap by yourself Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VOICES, by RONALD WILLIAM PIES Poem Source First Line: One hundred men, %they marches us from birkenau Last Line: If there is a god, %if there is, %he should be strangled %slowly.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VOW, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: I swear by the horrified stars, by the sun and its rays Last Line: The ash of my body refused by the planet. Amen! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WALL, by LUDVIK ASKENAZY Poem Source First Line: In a place of worship I know, they made a strange music Last Line: I must be here,' she said, 'somewhere %between john and jo seph' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WANDERSONG, by BENJAMIN KATZ Poem Source First Line: Wander, cradle, up and wander! %in the west the sun goes under Last Line: Wander, cradle, wake and run! %nazi - demons drive us on Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WAR HAS BEEN GIVEN A BAD NAME, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: I am told that the best people have begun saying Last Line: Discredited for some time to come Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War WAR LULLABY, by BRACHE KOPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, my child, my only child, %rest, my one delight! Last Line: Will burst in brightness at your door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WARSAW, by SHMERKE KATCHERGINSKY Poem Source First Line: The night does not pass and the day does not dawn Last Line: Avenge them! Avenge them! Avenge them!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WARSAW GHETTO, by HAROLD BLACK Poem Source First Line: Me'ayin yavoh ezri? %night has fallen Last Line: Of half a million jews Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WATCHING 'SHOAH' IN A HOTEL ROOM IN AMERICA, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights as soft as fur on a foal Last Line: We have nowhere to go Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism WATCHING 'SHOAH' IN A HOTEL ROOM IN AMERICA, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights as soft as fur on a foal Last Line: We have nowhere to go Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WAVING HER FAREWELL. TRAIN STATION, VIENNA XV, 1939, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: It is not a trip to the prater or augarten to play Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE ARE THE ECHOES, by CAROL ADLER Poem Source First Line: Find another place for them Last Line: Take away your echoes %we say %talking to you as if you were listening Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE GO ON LIVING, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We go on living on the earth Last Line: We speak - to little, gray birds Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE NEVER GOT TO SAY GOODBYE, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: An infinite time ago Last Line: And I never got to say goodbye Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 1, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: And at once I hear a question - from where that we? Last Line: Because they are of my nation. After my death, %may the earth of poland take me! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 2, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: But I hear voices saying, fine, but if a pole, then why Last Line: With the jews. Take me in, my brothers! It is to this %community, to this church, that I wish to bel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 3, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: In warsaw and every other polish city, there will Last Line: Will we carry the mark of the polish jew - only then, %in pride and mourning, all other ranks dimini Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Poland WE POLISH JEWS: 4, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: We who-by miracle or by accident-remain alive Last Line: To the world: polish jews! The biggest sensation! Nervous %people, please leave the hall! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 5, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I call your name o god from a scatter of graves Last Line: Our fuhrer and savior, who will dictate our rights %and desires! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE WEEK YOU, ONE AND ONLY GOD, by LUBA KRUGMAN GURDUS Poem Source First Line: In doleful tunes of autumn winds Last Line: It's you we seek, one and only god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WEEKEND IN PALM SPRINGS, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: The pool light shimmers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WELTANSCHAUUNG, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The sieg! Heil! Victory! Salvation! Last Line: Were spread like a gray smudge %over the frozen roads Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WESTERBORK TODAY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Surrounded by empty nowhere Last Line: Only memories live here now Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Ears afire, I knock at kent house door Last Line: I'm at the bus stop; but around me floats %a choral fire from every synagogue %of brno, pilsen, brat Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT HAPPENS, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: It has happened Last Line: Nd goes on happening and will happen again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT IS NOT HERE, by SHAYE BUDIN Poem Source First Line: On sea and on ocean, on night Last Line: Best of health, and let us hear from you! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT LUCK, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: What luck I can pick Last Line: I thought man %has no heart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT SWIMS THERE ON THE HUDSON, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What swims there on the hudson %in the glare of red? Last Line: Who once more, in my memory, %are going under Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEEL, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: I began to think Last Line: As long as you live, %anything can happen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEN I READ OF THE ROSE OF DACHAU, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Auschwitz! %buchenwald! %smart makers of the dead Last Line: Or is it I %who tremble? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEN I WAS TEN, by DORA WEEKS Poem Source Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEN MEMORIES COME, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: When memories grow old Last Line: Without whom I would not be me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHERE I SAT, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: I sat between grandmother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHILE BOUNCING THE SHEMA BACK AND FORTH IN SHUL, by TALIA N. BLOCH Poem Source First Line: We were there, avinu Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHILE CARRYING LOADS OF TIMBER, by JACOB (JACK) GORDON Poem Source First Line: While carrying loads of timber Last Line: With footstep weary, numb Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHISPERED, by JIRI ORTEN Poem Source First Line: Blood only blood is able to beat to strike the right note Last Line: Here's my cover which you've almost managed to close %only it stays slightly askew Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHITE CANDLES, by BONNILEE Poem Source First Line: I used to watch her pacing Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHO AM I?, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: I am gabie or gabi Last Line: Together they say: me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHY DIDN'T MY FATHER DIE IN THE FIRE?, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I wish my dad had died at auschwitz Last Line: Of my gassed and cremated heritage Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHY I WRITE ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST, by GARY PACERNICK Poem Source First Line: When I was a boy I lived among people Last Line: I tasted the bitter herbs of their memories; %I heard their silent screams Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHY WAS IT SO BRIGHT?, by LEIB APESKIN Poem Source First Line: Why, yesterday, was it so bright overhead? Last Line: The sun will burst forth as it should! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WIND WEEPS, by ADELA FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Forgive me, dear child, %that I won't lull you Last Line: Don't say you're on the road to death!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WITHOUT JEWS, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without jews there is no jewish god Last Line: Jewish god! %you are almost gone Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WITHOUT JEWS, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without jews, no jewish god Last Line: Soon, jewish god, %your eclipse Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WITHOUT JEWS, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without jews there will be no jewish god Last Line: Jewish god, soon you are no more Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WITNESS, by MONIQUE PASTERNAK Poem Source First Line: On november the eighth Last Line: Another one rises %and breathes itself to the shore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WOMEN BATHING AT BERGEN-BELSEN, by ENID SHOMER Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve hours after the allies arrive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism WOMEN BATHING AT BERGEN-BELSEN, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve hours after the allies arrive Last Line: Of the body, that kingdom to which they've returned Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WOODCUTTER IN THE BEECH WOOD, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: As the saw whined the sawyer Last Line: He mourned for the thick %limbs, the whole tree Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WORD ABOUT ETHEL, by LEYB KVITKO Poem Source First Line: I swear to keep it in my memory for all time Last Line: Dear ethel, let me help you not to hate the world . . . Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WORK AND WORRY, by CHERYL J. FISH Poem Source First Line: You seemed older Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YAD VASHEM, by HANS JUERGENSEN Poem Source First Line: We had to enter Last Line: Of naked stone-heads %toward which %we turn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YELLOW STARRED, by MARY PHILIP DE CAMARA Poem Source First Line: Approach the holocaust %only with synecdoche Last Line: A lone symbol - twisted cross %one god, %one sound - silence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM HASHOAH, by ESTELLE GERSHGOREN NOVAK Poem Source First Line: I only read about you Last Line: I remain, my own tears %ignorant and astonished Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM HASHOAH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Yom hashoah has come again Last Line: With every yom hashoah that passes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM HAZIKARON, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: Because every monstrosity %is diminished by the next Last Line: Everything that happened %which we want to forget Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM KIPPUR, by BRADLEY R. STRAHAN Poem Source First Line: In this great synagogue Last Line: That year by year %pushes heavenward %in scorn of ax and saw Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR FOR A SURVIVOR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This dark, early thursday a.M. Last Line: Turn to kaddish-flames, forgotten names, god-ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM KIPPUR SONNET, WITH A LINE FROM LAMENTATIONS, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Can a person atone for pure bewilderment? Last Line: Return us, lord, to you, and we'll return Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Yom Kippur YOU, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You %in the night Last Line: Whose completion %is left to the dying Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOU KNOW THE FUNNY THING IS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Have been there. Otherwise %I wouldn't have known Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOU WHO ARE PASSING THROUGH, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Close your eyes, you who are passing through, and see: a people almost gone ... Last Line: It is their voice Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOUNG MOTHER, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Since there's nothing in the whole wide world, no other Last Line: And, like stars, stream in the wintry flakes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ZUDIOSKA, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Smug in her adriatic noon, dubrovnik beams Last Line: Shield your eyes when you come back into the light %or the beaming stones will burn them as if you a Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ZURICH, THE STORK INN, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of too much was our talk, of Last Line: Don't know, do we? %what %counts Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews |
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