Holocaust poetry

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

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

Cartload of Shoes / Abraham Sutzkever

How? / Abraham Sutzkever

How They Killed My Grandmother / Boris Slutsky

(from) Holocaust / Charles Reznikoff

Assumption of Miriam / Jerzy Ficowski

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

Harbach 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

Remembering Dresden / Van K. Brock

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

Burnt / Boris Slutsky

Innocence / Thom Gunn

(from) Holocaust / Charles Reznikoff

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 / Goeffrey 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

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

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

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

Campo dei Fiori / Czeslaw Milosz

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

Smoke Rose / Itamar Yaoz-Kest

Written in Pencil / Dan Pagis

Zurich, the Stork Inn / Paul Celan

Who Am I? / Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I Believe / Anonymous

What Luck / Tadeusz Rozewicz

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.