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Holocaust Literature Poems

These Holocaust Literature poems are examples of Literature poems about Holocaust. These are the best examples of Literature Holocaust poems written by international poets.

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

ihr kampf

 
snowball in the face   warming them         mid-laugh ; 
    ...

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Categories: literature, appreciation, books, childhood, holocaust,

The Value of One Life

"Were it possible, a vast number of human beings would likely relive
at least one day in their lives --
each being utterly ignorant of the consequences."
--...

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Categories: literature, pain,

Chaos Literature

Slick silicon suicide, 
Intricate black matrix...
Interwoven web of electrons dance.

In the rhythm of the chaos words.
The rhyme of divine writing
Ancient rambling on evermore.

Lucifer turn eons-long,
Something...

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Categories: literature, adventure, allegory, analogy, angel,

A Poem For My History Teacher

I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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Categories: literature, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,

There For Me

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: literature, 12th grade, character, hope,

Epigrams Iii

Speechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.

Ko Un speaks for all...

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Categories: humor, literature, philosophy, poems,

So You Think You'Re Going To Shoot Me

So You Think You're Going to Shoot Me?

I got news for you goyim, ?You've been shooting at me for 900 years
?From arrows to bullets to...

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Categories: bereavement, holocaust, jewish, literature,