Holocaust Poems

How Holocaust poetry humanizes history

I'm Declan Dunn, founder of Remember.org, exploring how Holocaust poetry humanizes history. With The Song Remains sharing this because I was inspired 42 years ago by a poem by Charlotte Delbo, a Holocaust survivor. The...

Auschwitz poem by Professor G. Stendig-Lindberg

This Auschwitz poem is by my Mother, Professor G. Stendig-lindberg, who went through hellish conditions in WWII; from Krakow Ghetto to labor and concentration camp Plaszow, to Auschwitz, and then to Bergen Belsen. During her...

The Holocaust:  A Poem of Remembrance

Listen to the poem. The Holocaust: A Poem of Remembrance, by Tamara Beryl Latham Skeletal frames, whose beaten hearts once bore, the heft of Hitler's war, who knelt en masse, in silence quaked with stifled groans beneath the veil of death. Through reddened tear-stained eyes they prayed...

Liberation of Auschwitz 75 years later – a poem

As the world commemorates the Liberation of Auschwitz after 75 years, strange things are happening. At Remember.org we focus on people's history, not the political games or storytelling surrounding the events at Auschwitz, especially...

“I Cannot Forget”, two poems by Alexander Kimel

I   C  A  N  N  O  T   F  O  R  G  E  T The Creed of a Holocaust Survivor https://remember.org/pessimists-son-by-alexander-kimel.html THE ACTION IN THE GHETTO OF ROHATYN, MARCH 1942. by Alexander Kimel- Holocaust Survivor. Do I want to...

Babi Yar Poem By Yevgeni Yevtushenko

Return to Witnesses' "Growing up in Russia, I experienced antisemitism; personally directed, ubiquitous, and violent,covertly approved of by the government. Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poem, written to expose the inhumanity of Babi Yar, and the subsequent injustice...

A Holocaust Prayer by Alexander Kimel

Written by Alexander Kimel - a Holocaust Survivor. https://remember.org/pessimists-son-by-alexander-kimel.html In Memory Holocaust Prayer by Alexander Kimel Prayer for the Children: Almighty God, full of Mercy remember the generation of Jewish children that were reared for slaughter. Reared...

“OFTEN A MINUTE”: Poetry from Pearls and Lace

  Return to Pearls and Lace POEMS: "IT'S SPRINGTIME" "OFTEN A MINUTE" "THERE IS NO EXIT" "A LITTLE BIRD" "I'M TELLING THE STORY" "MY MOTHER" Home Page About the Book "OFTEN A MINUTE" Editor's Note: The changing political...

Recent posts

Popular categories