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May 7, 2021 · 0:00. 0:00. x1. David Lenga, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, likes to share his story with as many people as possible to help combat rising antisemitism worldwide. In a Zoom interview with the ...
Jane Ulman. David Lenga was riding a streetcar in Lodz, Poland, on Sept. 1, 1939, traveling across town on an errand for his mother, when the city’s air-raid sirens began blasting. The streetcar ...
This is a remarkable collection of poems about the Holocaust by a poet who himself survived horrific abuse during his childhood and adolescence (see The Endless Search: A Memoir in this database). "He had in mind a thousand year Reich," Ray writes (p. 16), but it has become "the thousand year Kaddish." But the grief of the Holocaust has begun ...
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Poetry, Essays, & Short Stories by Children of Survivors and Our Parents. From Maxine Shoshanna Persaud, Toronto, Canada: Many years ago I wrote the following words into my diary on a night when my parents were having a particularly hard time coping with life. Life, not as we see it , but as seen through the eyes of Holocaust survivors. I could not...
By Izzy Nelken
Trying to grasp Elie Wiesel’s “Night” It’s an internal fight I read two pages, leave and come back imagine the gallows around someone’s neck Elie’s father was well respected it didn’t help him when he was “selected” whatever they had was taken away and there was nothing you could do or say My grandfather had a lot of clout but our entire family was wiped out he had a factory and property and bank accounts today, I am filled with doubts: a man works all his life to collect then, one day it is...
By Izzy Nelken
The ghosts of Auchwitz are chasing me again just like they did when I was ten I sat with in the kitchen with my mom trying to speak, I was quite dumb Tried to listen to what she had to say wished it was just another regular day and now its midnight and I am drunk smoked a cigar and smell like a skunk what is the meaning of life, I try to figure with the skills of a mathematician and all its rigor Menke Kalisch, Kopel Reich those are important figures in my psych I can feel them fight with all...
By Jackie Ruben
1. I am in my grandmother’s kitchen, inapartment 8B on Avenida del Libertador, Buenos Aires. It’s the late 1970s. I’m a child and I sit on that old blue table where my own mom once must have sat at my age to eat, as I will, a feast of “chicken paprikash” with “tarhonya” noodles, that old family recipe handed down for so many generations and which marries so well with that rich chocolate roulade, “kalacs” that my grandma has made for dessert.What do we talk about, as my grandma chops the onion...
Nov 11, 2021 · Note: All poems have been formatted in the same way as in the original journal articles. Michael Etkind, a Polish Holocaust survivor from Łódź, wrote in 2017 that he ‘searched for words’ to convey the truth about the collective pasts of himself and fellow members of the ‘45 Aid Society.
In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
Aug 2, 2016 · We May Not Have Another Chance. Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz processes an experience she had in a slave labor camp through a poem and writing. Sonia Weitz was a young teenager in Poland when, in 1941, she and her family were forced to enter the Kraków ghetto. Her mother was taken from the ghetto and sent to the Belzec death camp, where she ...
