| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 5-234 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
The works of poets from Europe, Israel and America. In History and Reality, Stephen Spender writes: "She felt a kind of envy for / Those who stood naked in their truth: / Where to be of her people was / To be one of those millions killed." |
| Contents |
Alienation Heritage / Hayim Gouri -- Europe, late / Dan Pagis -- Shoemaker's wife / Lotte Kramer -- Burning of the books / Bertolt Brecht -- First they came for the Jews / Pastor Niemoller / Footnote extended / Dannie Abse -- Refugee blues / W. H. Auden -- How can I see you, Love / David Vogel Persecution 1940 / Bertolt Brecht -- Red Cross Telegram / Lotte Kramer -- German frontier at Basel / Hilda Schiff -- He was lucky / Anna Swirszczynska -- I saw my father drowning / David Vogel -- There is a last, solitary coach / David Vogel -- Clouded sky / Miklos Radnoti -- Butterfly / Pavel Friedmann -- Elegy / Antoni Slonimski -- Carload of shoes / Abraham Sutzkever -- How? / Abraham Sutzkever -- How they killed my grandmother / Boris Slutsky -- (From ) Holocaust / Cahrles Reznikoff -- Assumption of Miriam / Jerzy Ficowski -- Destruction (i) Death fugue / Paul Celan -- O the chimneys / Nelly Sachs -- Never shall I forget / Elie Wiesel -- Testimony / Dan Pagis -- Roll call / Dan Pagis -- Be seeing you / Vasko Popa -- Forced march / Miklos Radnoti -- Postcards / Miklos Radnoti -- Harback 1944 / Janos Pilinszky -- Passion of Ravensbruck / Janos Pilinszky -- On the wall of KZ-Lager / Janos Pilinszky -- Fable, detail from his KZ-Oratorio: Dark Heaven / Janos Pilinszky -- Roads / Peter Huchel -- Poem of death / George Macbeth -- Night over Birkenau / Tadeusz Borowski -- Treblinka / Michael Hamburger -- Shipment to Maidanek / Ephraim Fogel -- Remebering Dresden / Van K. Brock (ii) Passover: the injections / William Heyen -- Girl of six from the Ghetto / Jerzy Ficowski -- 5.8.1942, In Memory of Janusz Korczak / Jerzy Ficowski -- (from) Holocaust / Charles Reznikoff -- Dead child speaks / Nelly Sachs -- Already embraced by the Arm of Heavenly Solace / Nelly Sachs -- O the night of the weeping children! / Nelly Sachs -- Massacre of the boys / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- Pigtail / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- In the camp there was one alive / Randall Jarrell -- Magda Goebbels / W. D. Snodgrass -- (iii) Burnt / Boris Slutsky -- Innocence / Thom Gunn -- (from) Holocaust / Charled Reznikoff -- Rescuers, bystanders, perpetrators Both your mothers / Jerzy Ficowski -- 1980 / Abraham Sutzkever -- I did not manage to save / Jerzy Ficowski -- Poor Christian looks at the Ghetto / Czeslaw Milosz -- History and reality / Stephen Spender -- Babii Yar / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Ovid in the Third Reich / Geoffrey Hill -- September song / Geoffrey Hill -- Camp in the Prussian Forest / Randall Jarrell -- 'More light, more light' / Anthony Hecht -- Between the lines / Michael Hamburger -- German Requiem / James Fenton -- Afterwords Archive film material / Ruth Fainlight -- Far, far a city lies (from 'My little sister') / Abba Kovner -- Auschwitz, 1987 / Adam Zych -- Memento / Stephen Spender -- Leave us / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- Reveille / Primo Levi -- Survivor / Primo Levi -- Sun of Auschwitz / Tadeusz Borowski -- Farewell to Maria / Tadeusz Borowski -- Execution of memory / Jerzy Ficowski -- My mother's friend / Lily Brett -- La Pathetique / Lily Brett -- I, the survivor / Bertolt Brecht -- Return / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- Second Generation Almost a love poem / Yehuda Amichai -- Draft of a Reparations Agreement / Dan Pagis -- I was not there / Karen Gershon -- When it happened / Hilda Schiff -- I keep forgetting / Lily Brett -- Leaving you / Lily Brett -- Holocaust 1944 / Anne Ranasinghe -- Book of Yolek / Anthony Hecht -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- Against parting / Natan Zach -- Lessons Annotations of Auschwitz / Peter Porter -- If / Edward Bond -- How we see / Edward Bond -- Survivor / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- In the midst of life / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- Race / Karen Gershon -- Synagogue in Prague / Alan Sillitoe -- During the Eichmann trial / Denise Levertov -- Posthumous Rehabilitation / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- May, 1945 / Peter Porter -- War has been given a bad name / Bertolt Brecht -- Portrait of a house detective / Hans Magnus Enzenberger -- Riddle / william Heyen -- Annus Mirabilis 1989 / Elaine Feinstein God (i) Smoke rose / Itamar Yaoz-Krest -- Written in pencil / Dan Pagis -- Zurich, the Stork Inn / Paul Celan -- Who am I? / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- I believe / Anonymous -- What luck / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- (ii) Without Jews / Jacob Glatstein -- Experiments with God / Karen Gershon -- Jugs / Paul Celan -- Psalm / Paul Celan -- After Auschwitz / Anne Sexton -- Discovery / Hilda Schiff -- Ani Maamin / Elie Wiesel -- Shema / Primo Levi. |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Schiff, Hilda.
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| ISBN |
0312130864 |
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9780312130862 |
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