SELECTED POEMS BY NOTABLE POETS
POETRY BY LOIS E. OLENA, HOLOCAUST ARCHIVIST
HOLOCAUST POETRY BY VARIOUS WRITERS -- INCLUDING POPE JOHN PAUL II
"Fear" - by 14-Year-old Eva Pickova - Holocaust Victim
Today the
ghetto knows a different fear,
Close in its grip, Death wields an icy scythe.
An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake,
The victims of its shadow weep and writhe.
Today a father's heartbeat tells his fright
And mothers bend their heads into their hands.
Now children choke and die with typhus here,
A bitter tax is taken from their bands.
My heart still beats inside my breast
While friends depart for other worlds.
Perhaps it's better — who can say? —
Than watching this, to die today?
No, no, my God, we want to live!
Not watch our numbers melt away.
We want to have a better world,
We want to work — we must not die!
POETRY OF PAUL CELAN, ANALYSIS AND PHOTO
EVALUATING HOLOCAUST POETRY WITH RUBRIC