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A 5 page overview of Holocaust poetry. This paper emphasizes how poetry like that of Don Pagis, Paul Celan, and others have added significantly to our understanding of the horrors of this time in history, not through rote historical fact, but through the moving words of their poems. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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forever etched into our societal memory. The Holocaust is the most disturbing aspect of this turbulent time in our worlds history. The Holocaust, perpetuated on the ideologies of
Adolf Hitler, was based on an intense hatred and disrespect for the Jewish people. Hitler viewed Jewry as an international conspiracy against the "Aryan civilization" (The Economist PG).
He was later to write "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human" (Spiegelman 3). Out of the Holocaust would
come some of the most abhorrent memories of world civilization. Also, however, would come a few determined survivors. Some of these survivors would capture the horrors of their
experience in poetry. Indeed, the Holocaust continues to be one of the most thought provoking times of our history. As such is captures past and contemporary poets alike,
poets whose common theme is the exposure of the horrors which occurred at the Nazi concentration camps. The first poem which jumps to
mind as being illustrative of the survivor spirit in the death camps is Don Pagis "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car". To understand this powerful poem we must
recognize a small bit of the history of the Holocaust. After coming into power and invading Poland in 1939 the Jews of Germany were not allowed a public life,
could not marry or have sexual relations with non Jews and had to give up all their property (The Economist PG). In Poland special military units, called Einsatzgruppen, were
charged with exterminating the Jews. The Einsatzgruppen shot the Jews but this was not very efficient as it was slow and used ammunition which was need at the front lines.
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