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Holocaust Wife Poems

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


Miklos Radnoti Translation of the Holocaust Poem Letter To My Wife
Letter to My Wife
by Miklos Radnoti
translated by Michael R. Burch

A poem written during the Holocaust in Lager Heidenau, in the mountains above Zagubica, August-September, 1944

Deep...

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Categories: wife, death, heartbreak, holocaust, humanity,



The Women
The Women



(for the countless women, names unknown, who bore the brunt of Apartheid, and who fought the racist system at great cost to themselves and...

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Categories: wife, courage, daughter, death, dedication,

The Nameless - For South Africans of All Colours Who Fought For Freedom
The Nameless


Slipping through the sieve of history,

the nameless rest.

Not for the nameless are roads renamed, nor monuments built.

Not for the nameless are songs sung, nor...

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Categories: wife, black african american, dad,

A Story My Mother Told Me
someone always told me this with tears in her eyes...


(for Lata Sethi's late-mother, who was my mother’s ‘sister’ and who took us all into her...

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Categories: wife, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, grandmother,

Never Again
Woman and child are dragged to the gate.
The husband thrashes, but by then it's too late.
The conductor points to left or to right.
Neither direction survives...

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Categories: wife, history, war, husband, work,




Book: Shattered Sighs