Holocaust Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about the holocaust. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Pervitin Given during World War III don’t know what they are putting into my food,
But I am invincible. I am indestructible. I am incredible.
The essence of super powers flows into my pores now.
No one can stop me.
I do not need...
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Categories:
holocaust,
Form: Free verse
SPrAdEReluctant was so many,so far for nothing.
We went but never rode. We left but never
...
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Categories:
holocaust, america, anxiety, conflict, culture,
Form: Free verse
SPrAdEReluctant was so many,so far for nothing.
We went but never rode. We left but never
...
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Categories:
holocaust, america, anxiety, conflict, culture,
Form: Free verse
Telescopic echoes
Concrete entities
dead grass singularities
subliminal quakes...
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Categories:
age, conflict, death, holocaust,
Form: Haiku
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
holocaust, race, racism, truth,
Form: Free verse
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes.
The birds...
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Categories:
evil, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
evil, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos RadnotiWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti
Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...
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Categories:
holocaust, murder, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems II - Bertolt BrechtWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems II - Bertolt Brecht
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled...
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Categories:
books, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems (I)
These are poems about World War II and the Holocaust, which is also called the Shoah in Hebrew.
Epitaph for a Child of the Holocaust
by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
evil, holocaust, racism, truth,
Form: Rhyme
My most popular poems on the internet IIIMy most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
holocaust, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
THE FLOWERS OF AUCHSWITZ
Will they come into fashion again!
Out of the grass they did not suddenly bloom.
It took enough hate filled and divisive speech.
And then, when it grew to be "us over them"
The birth of Auschwitz and its...
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Categories:
freedom, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Most dangerous call ever made
I’ve recited this a trillion times
now I utter one single word,
but in code,
Not through amnesia or illness of any kind
Moreover because I have become
part demigod and part devil,
Nothing can be more...
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Categories:
holocaust, allegory, allusion, america, death,
Form: Free verse
Shlomo Flies to CannesShlomo Flies To Cannes
War nearly won, krauts on the run:
the mission, humanitarian.
Today’s flight plan - to land near Pilsen.
Not for leave, some R&R,
nor several barrels of famed Czech beer
brewed with rare Bavarian hops
they’d...
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Categories:
holocaust, soldier, world war
Form: Free verse
GeorgeThere are times for peace and times for war
When your conscience comes knocking at your door
And you know your Creator is asking for more..
And that's ok.
From our comfortable places we rise and stand
When our neighbours,...
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Categories:
holocaust, america, anti bullying, black
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Holocaust Poems
Definition | What is Holocaust in Poetry?
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