My heart is crying For their mothers and fathers; Holding onto their children tight, They know the Germans' might. Even so, some of them try to fight. My heart is crying, O dear G-d, why do You not hear our cry? However, throughout her ordeal it seems she has retained her belief in G-d, and maintained an optimistic and positive outlook. We had to go on. We realized we could not mourn forever. They say time heals; time consoles. But our memories and pain will last forever.
We cannot forget our loved ones. This book, Maria's legacy to her children and grandchildren, provides readers with a detailed insight into the window of a Holocaust survivor's experiences. Overall, this book is difficult to put down, raising many open-ended questions. Skip to main content. Yad Vashem is closed on Saturdays and all Jewish Holidays. Drive to Yad Vashem: For more Visiting Information click here. Poems and Memories of the Holocaust - Maria Szapszewicz. Reflecting on life after the Holocaust she writes: Interested in receiving information and updates from Yad Vashem?
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He is also an essayist, playwright and poet. He lives in Cambridge, England. Where once was Jericho falling to the music of one mind the stones have risen unseen. There is no way of finding a way of words that never fade when written in the air. Every thought an echo of a voice once heard.
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The speaker is unknown. Graham Fulton hfulton32 btinternet. Graham Fulton lives in Paisley in Scotland. Equal Night is due out this year from Irish publisher Salmon Poetry. Hanoch Guy hanochkguypoet yahoo. Hanoch Guy spent his childhood among cacti and citrus groves He is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English, He taught Hebrew and Jewish literature at Temple university.
He has published extensively and won awards in Poetica,Mad Poet society. Hanoch resides in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Crushed matzos and special Carmel wine from the holy land spills. Rad and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Did his selfie lie? So why then did he grow so inured to inflicting pain or even death? Did he succumb to a brain dysfunction, a mental abnormality? Still, in the end, varied pundits will mouth the received wisdom that he was nothing but a demented savage. James Goodman stonegoodman mac. James Stone Goodman is poet-rabbi currently working in St.
He works in prisons, advocates for mental health, runs a rescue mission countering drug misuse and other extreme preoccupations. The blue was taken from a snail found in the Sea. The snail comes up once every 70 years. There is a street in Paris 11th arrondissement called The Street of Tailors. I visited my friend who lives near the street of tailors. The first day we passed the street of tailors, I asked him, What is this street?
The next time we passed it, I asked again, Where does the name — street of tailors — come from? It once was a street of tailors, he said.
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I heard that there was a street of tailors working there, then the Germans took Paris, June 14, , and they all disappeared. A street of tailor artists, seventy years of ghosts, they have not changed the name of the street. A chasid on the sixth floor ascends and descends silently to make the evening prayers. The street of tailors. He knows fabrics but is a failure at freedom.
Fingering the coat he peers over his glasses. Nice merchandise, he says. Expert in drapes and Torah, hands stained with experimental dyes, he mixes a perfect blend for a priestly tunic. It smells like an insult. Later they fuss and pass the street of tailors. The tailors sewed in secrecy, to recover the lost blue thread, mystery blue, a deceased mollusk carried it into the deep where it gave birth, in salt, to the sea.
Jan Chronister wfoppres gmail. Jan Chronister lives and writes in the woods near Maple, Wisconsin. Her chapbook Target Practice was published at the University of Wisconsin. She is currently president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. A net is dragged through Berlin, Captures data from doctors, schools, churches, post office. They converted to Catholicism about the same time, removed menorahs, took down the mezuzah.
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David and Rebekah wear crosses to school, a picture of Christ hangs in the hall. They move five blocks away. Jim Bennett info poetrykit. Jim Bennett lives near Liverpool in the UK and tours giving readings of his work throughout the year. He is widely published and has won many competitions and awards for poetry and performance. I never thought it would make me feel this way perhaps I should have listened read more about it but I thought I knew it all I did know it all but I had never seen it for myself now i feel both guilty and a victim and there is a smell in here.
Johnmichael Simon lives in Metulla, Israel. He has published eight solo books of poems and several collaborations with other poets. He is published widely in print and website collections. Johnmichael is chief editor of Cyclamens and Swords publishing and webmaster of Voices Israel. There are those on whom grief lies like cold stones on a winter night women and men in streets, on buses gray, drab, holding their burdens close, year after year, worn before their time Who will never love again or grieve another time telling themselves; this stone is mine let no other disturb it Tradition has us unveil stones after a month and revisit them once a year — on Yahrzeit we stand beside the stones and remember.
Krista Wallen lives in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where she is a wife and mom. From a young age, Krista has enjoyed reading and writing poetry. Large eyes, wasted frames Haunted looks, dead men walking No end in sight, none. Lisa Stice houlistice gmail. Louis —a ship named for the patron saint against the death of children—cabled ahead, but the president did not respond because he feared they would take jobs from his own and so the ship was turned away.
But I am sorry others have forgotten. Marsha Markman marshamarkman gmail. She and her husband divide their time between California and Maryland. They were witnesses as Jews were dispersed from the land of Bach and Beethoven to the far corners of that ancient continent. They saw evil wave his baton to the left …. They watched as six million Jews were robbed of their properties as family and friends were eliminated another five million deemed unworthy unfit for life for Nationhood.
Watching came to our shores when the first Americans were driven from their homes to arid deserts lands stolen treaties broken lives shattered. They witnessed the institution of slavery and Jim Crow in "the land of the free.
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And in the past century gathered again on the walkways if towns and cities across Europe to witness forced marches to see cattle cars filled with human refuse to hear the clanging of their death toll. Martina Robles Gallegos Selbor yahoo. Martina was born and raised in Mexico and came to the United States at almost fifteen. She spoke no English. Some poems have been published in the Altadena Poetry Review: She lives in Oxnard, CA. Who listened to emaciated bodies who died waiting to be fed? All those souls, bodies, and orphaned children are screaming from far-away worlds and beg us to remember a dark, criminal, and deadly past which seems likely to repeat.
Voices from the graves never forget the past and call out to humanity to halt the hateful rhetoric if our planet is to survive.
Matthew Scott Harris Harris40tude aol. He dwells among a moderate population of Eastern European offspring. Merridawn Duckler idawn earthlink. Merridawn Duckler is a poet and playwright who lives in Portland, Oregon.
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I went to the horror film with a victim of its horror, and though he was not my relative I kissed his cheek, blue track veins under skin of winter paper white. And when they loaded the trains, he was the cargo. And when they dumped the ashes, his were absent. The projector has no conscience, in dark we sit as events unfold, before one who folds his eyes.
Michael Brownstein mhbrownstein ymail. The shape of the sun did not enter our minds, Spring days and summer, a sameness. Yet we gathered our strength and helped Each other to our feet, hid the sick and injured, Made excuses for those not strong enough to rise. The fields gray and mud, our skin darkened with labor and sweat. We ate because we had to, We shared what we had because that is our way. We dealt with the sameness with prayer and Kaddish, A jubilance for life even as they tried to murder us. We must have been frightening to the men with rifles Holding the leaches of violent dogs.
We scarred them Into horror and night sweats. Still we worked, Sharing the little we had growing stronger inside. They knew we were better than them. Michael Burch mikerburch gmail. Burch is an American poet who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an editor, publisher and translator of Holocaust poetry. Some of his poems have been used in Holocaust memorials and taught in schools around the globe. He also edits www. Something uncapturable is gone— gone with the spent leaves and illuminations of autumn, scattered into a haze with the faint rustle of parched grass and remembrance.
Something unforgettable is past— blown from a glimmer into nothingness, or less, which finality has swept into a corner, where it lies in dust and cobwebs and silence. Michael Virga mavbuon hotmail. Neil Ellman ellmans comcast. Neil Ellman, a poet from New Jersey, has published numerous poems in print and online journals, anthologies and chapbooks throughout the world. Time, perhaps, is the victor wounded but struggling on while I, the vanquished, became a victim of everything I have seen— time and I without a chance to stay our destinies unscathed.
Nicholas has a website: Ozzie Nogg ozzienogg cox. She lives in Omaha, NE where you can visit her at: Nancy Scott nscott29 aol. She is the author of nine books of poetry, her most recent, Ah, Men Aldrich Press, is a retrospective of the men who influenced her life. Pivotral Moment is an excerpt of a longer poem from that book. Originslly from the Chicago area, she currently resides in New Jersey. The summer of a young man with a thick accent came to our door and asked to speak to my father. After he graduated, the young man left to pursue his education elsewhere.
He asked where I lived and was moved to find out. Within weeks, I moved in with him and the marriage lasted for twenty-three years. Now fifty years later, I decided to surf the Internet for news of the professor who had died in ; impressive list of accomplishments, books, papers, and awards, two marriages. Patricia Carragon pcarragon gmail. She hosts the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. Raoul Izzard raoulizzard gmail.
Raoul is an English teacher who lives in Barcelona with his wife and two-year-old son. At daybreak, in a Jewish orphanage, sledgehammers broke down doors, and stones broke glass. The cupboards and the tables all gave away, and sinks exploded inwards, paper worked itself into a storm that covered floors. The orphans watched a bonfire in the yard mount up with prayer books, shawls, their toys, in silence.
There were no beds to go back to. The angry air bruised, pulled at hair, and spat: The children in pyjamas ran through streets where Jewish shops and houses blew out smoke. Prone men and women bled and were detained. Unwritten orders carried out themselves, and shunted people off to unknown fates. Richard Kalfus rkalfus charter. He published poetry and articles on Holocaust education as well as a three part DVD series of interviews with St.
I was 13 at the time—a sensitive boy who nothing of what my father suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Why was I kept in the dark about the darkest chapter In the life of a father I loved? It was my American mother who understood him so well. She knew his fear in giving voice to the past and burdening his American son. It was years later when I learned that by protecting me he was protecting himself in order to live in the present and not in the past.
Richard Widerkehr fordwid aol. He earned his M.
He has two collections of poems: He lives in Bellingham, WA. When I sing a few Hebrew songs at my music camp, the other Jew in the room says almost tenderly, No one does this. Yes, misspelled like smoke from certain kilns, mass graves near Vilnius.
Rie Sheridan Rose riewriter gmail. Rie Sheridan Rose multitasks from Austin, Texas. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies, including Nightmare Stalkers and Dream Walkers Vols. She has authored eight novels, six poetry chapbooks, and lyrics for dozens of songs.
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She tweets as RieSheridanRose. We came in cattle cars to the camps, Huddling together in hope. At least we had each other…. Until they sent off the sick and separated us, men from women mothers from sons fathers from daughters wives from husbands…. The showers took the weak sickness took others work details wore down the strong. Rifkah Rita Goldberg rifkahg netvision. Rifkah Rita Goldberg writes poetry and aphorisms, and is a long-time oil painter.
She has a Ph. Born in London in , she has been living in Jerusalem since , has two sons, ten grandchildren, and five step-grand-children and is married to the writer Shalom Freedman. After your turmoil Bringing Jewish history Into modern Israeli cities. Perhaps foreseeing your final day When you remained there forever planning To come back shortly to your beloved painting. Ron Kolm kolmrank verizon. Ron Kolm is a founding member of the Unbearables and has helped edit their five anthologies.
Ron Kolm lives in New York City. Think about it— He was a small dark man With a strange haircut And film noir moustache Telling people to worship Tall blondes. Or was he truly that blinded By self-hatred? I doubt it Because it seems He tried very hard To disappear anyone Who even remotely Resembled him, so He would never have to see His reflection anywhere— That way he could fantasize He was a ravishing blonde Sword in hand Playing out All the old myths.
He lost the fucking war. The guy was dead wrong A total loser.
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Stacey Zisook-Robinson office naamatchicago. Stacey Zisook Robinson is a poet and essayist who lives in Chicago with her teenaged son and their cat. She blogs at staceyzrobinson. Her poetry has been included in several anthologies, She is currently working on her next book, tentatively called Unexpected Hosannas. I wonder about the infinity of light that shattered in a single Breath — and the dust of Adam that scattered, a sweeping whirlwind of limitless everywhere upon the earth, and the stars that Abraham counted — numberless, and distant, and cold fire.
We counted time by moonlight and threads of blue — Exquisitely finite and eternal, a holy cadence of one plus one plus one again a never-ending measure of binding and grace. So I wonder, with all the counting of all the endlessness of stars and dust and light and time and one plus one plus One —. Stefanie Bennett suneagle bigpond.
She can be found between Riverside, California — and Trumbull, Ct. There is no train. There is no station. The stopping point Begs recall…. There was a house. A window Through which. Steve Braff stevebraff1 gmail. Over the past year, Steve Braff has been exploring his relationship to Judaism using poetry as a way to bring to word what it means for him to be a post-Holocaust Jew. Steve lives with his wife, dog, and two cats, in Los Olivos, California.
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? Is it not in that thou goest with us? How can I do justice to a six foot pile of seventy two year old shoes? Two busy to mess unholy mass sienna grave browns to olive cast aways saved cover some poor feet repurposed death eye witness glaze fast past this past in verse question- my testament:.
Grace in thy sight? Susan Beth Furst sfurst14 aol. Susan Beth Furst is a poet and author. She wants the world to remember that there was a girl from Poland named Irka, and that she lived. Susan lives in Woodbridge, Virginia. She stands in line with the other prisoners, at Auschwitz. She is Jewish, blue eyes, still a teenager. Her name is Irka. There is a woman in line with her.