Evelyn Swartz Poet Ekphrasis

The Last Train To Auschwitz

Auschwitz   
      1.3 million people sent there
          1.1 million died 
        Jews  Germans  Russians
       Ethnic Poles  French  Czech
                Many Others
      Auschwitz I (Main Camp)
             Barracks 1939
 Home to Polish Prisoners of War
  May 1940  First thirty prisoners
   German Career Criminals
    Sadism, torture, beatings
    Tattoos of serial numbers 
           August 1941
          First Gassings
    Soviet and Polish Prisoners
          Cell Block 11
    Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
 Concentration and Extermination Camp
            1942-1944
    Jews transported by freight trains
               Death
          Gas Chambers
           Starvation 
     Disease and  Torture
           Executions
    Auschwitz III (Monowitz)
  Financed by Private Industry
     Inmates employed
       Spring 1941
Walking through town to work
        July 1941
   Factory workers
 Transported by freight train
        1943-1944
35,000 inmates employed
  Inhumane Conditions
 Daily Deaths
    Exhaustion
      Disease
        Starvation
January 1945 Evacuation
The Death March of 9000 Inmates
     Most were Jews
Transported by rail to subcamps 
      Jan. 27th, 1945
         Liberation
 We must never forget, we must teach future generations history. We can never let this happen again.
                              04/20/2021
Written for The Last Train To Auschwitz Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann

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