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Survivors
The Survivors
Strong
Fighting for life
The Survivors
beat hate
beat prejudice
The Survivors
overcame an army
overcame discrimination
The Survivors
educating the world
making sure it never happens again
The Survivors
there should have been more
there should have been millions
The Survivors -
who fought back.
by Elsie Dedecker
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Trapped in the Shadows
Trapped in the shadows --
A voice calls to me --
We have been taken away
It's very lonely -
Very silent -
Very calm -
Still
Trapped here -
In the shadows
When the voice calls to me
I call back
Having a sense of relief
That the silence has disappeared
Then I see a hand
It reaches for me --
I think my thoughts, prayers, and dreams
All came true on that very day -
I was saved --
No longer worried
About being trapped -
Down there in the shadows
by Amanda Cohen
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Untitled
they tortured the Jews
they tried to wipe us out
they almost did so
by Matt Rubenstein
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Untitled
The Holocaust was
A Horrible nightmare, a
curse lasting what seemed
like forever.
by Melissa Roderman
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Untitled
In the ghetto
My troubles lie…
Walls of ice
All around.
Houses of death
On Earth's ground.
What should I do
Before I die?
Showers of gas
That burn your skin.
There is no way
The Jews can win.
They've killed my mother,
and my father.
Shot guns, pistols,
Tools of war.
In these camps,
There's no out door.
My sisters and brother,
it will always bother.
by David Stern and Max Phillips
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6 Million
6 million is a number
Just a number
But to Jews it is more than
a number.
6 million is the number of
brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers,
sons and daughters killed with
hatred and ignorance of
human beings.
6 million can stand as many things.
But for the Jews it stands
as the innocent brothers and sisters who perished in the
Holocaust.
6 million.
Remember the 6 million not
as a number, a quantity, an
amount but as
6 million Jews.
6 million.
by Shaquede Frank
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Hatred
Hatred,
The one word that tears us
Apart.
The one word that kills.
The one word that starts
Wars.
The one word that killed me.
by Chava Vietze
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Holocaust
Death
around every corner.
Darkness
in every building.
Dread
inside and out.
The stench of all things evil
Everywhere
by Simon Liebling
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The Flower
A flower wilts in the hot July sun
A young child sits and watches the
yellow flower die
The child has seen many losses
The child has no one
The child has nothing
Her last possession was this yellow
flower
Her identity is no more than a number
As the flower dies, the child, small and
frail, wilts
with her flower
Her nameless face closes its eyes and
lays gently
beside the flower, never to awaken again
by Lindsay Kessler
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Holocaust Poem
Everything was peaceful
Everything was calm
Until they came.
And made the quiet scream
And the peaceful hurt
And the good were killed
So town to town
Became awaken
To the evil
Floating around them
Not to stop
For a long time
But when they left
All was ruined
All was destroyed
All was dead and gone.
by Camille Hutt
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Holocaust
There once was a man, a Jew.
Nazis treated him like poo.
Checked and burned,
Many stomachs churned.
Now the Holocaust is true.
by Michael Sugarman
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Untitled
Running, Running
Are they there?
Are they catching up
Chasing dying
My mother, my father
My brother suffocating
Help them! Help me!
Emaciated people walking, dying
Help me!
I'm safe, they're gone
I'm dead
by Morgan Reiss
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