Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
POETS OF THE WORLD BEARING WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST EDITED BY MARGUERITE M. STRIAR \ NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS EVANSTON, ILLINOIS Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix IN DEFENSE OF POETRY After Poetry, Jane Schapiro 5 a Jew's love for language, Chaia L. Heller 6 The Book of Lamentations, Leo Haber 9 Song Is a Monument, Yala Korwin 11 Letter to a Poet, Herman Taube 13 Dedication, Czestaw Mitosz 15 THE BEGINNING: PREMONITIONS AND PROPHESIES Where We Are, Peter Desy 19 A Transport of Children, Cornel Lengyel 21 Oma's Opera Fan, Rochelle Natt 23 Born in Safety, 1941: a broken villanelle, Davi Walders 25 The Last Letter, Charles F. Streckfus \ 26 The Photograph, Mary Engel 27 Hearing Him Talk, Barbara Goldberg 28 The Document Room at Nuremberg, Enid Shomer 30 Choni, The Circle Man, Asher Torren 31 The Non-Emigrant (My Father in Nazi Germany), Lotte Kramer 33 On Shutting the Door, Lotte Kramer 34 Fugue, Lotte Kramer 35 A New Subject, Lotte Kramer 36 The Class of '38, Herbert Kuhner 37 Circus, Vera Weislitz 38 THE NIGHTMARE BECOMES REALITY Kristallnacht, Sue Saniel Elkind 43 Last Train to Auschwitz, Lois Van Houten 44 I'm Chugging into France, Julia Stein 47 Heading East, Davi Walders 49 Goethe's Tree, Annie Dawid 50 The Synagogue of Florence, Lena L. Charney 52 Perhaps a Friend of Anne Frank's, Samuel Exler 53 "More Light! More Light!" Anthony Hecht 54 Like Butterflies, Mark Pawlak 56 Photo, Krakow 1939, Donna Reis 58 The German Officer Writes a Letter, Elisavietta Ritchie 59 To Make Sacred, Reeve Robert Brenner 62 Doubling, Lester Speiser 64 The Death of the Partisan Girl: Russia, Tom Wayman 66 Even the old men's last breath, Nelly Sachs 68 Abuse, Dahlia Ravikovitch • 70 At Babi Yar, Jo Nelson 71 After the War, Lily Brett 72 A Jewish Baby in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1941, Leatrice Lifshitz 74 Dachau '44, Judith Berke 76 Unanswerable Questions, Terezin, Reva Sharon 77 Letter to Dina, John Bradley \ 79 See, Nadia! P.
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