Poem about the Holocaust
http://www.auschwitz.dk/id6.htm
Holocaust
by Barbara Sonek We played, we laughed we were loved. We were ripped from the arms of our parents and thrown into the fire. We were nothing more than children. We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember us, for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away. |
By looking at this poem, I can easily see the similarities of my novel "Night" and this. Both are taking place during the same time period and both this poem and the novel are being spoken by a Jewish child. These two selections can link to each other because both are hoping to have a great future with jobs they are dreaming of. But when the second World War begins their dreams are crushed and this can relate to Elie's childhood back in the day as well. He may have been hoping to have a great job when he gets older and having a great family by becoming a doctor or lawyer but once the war began, his dreams have been crushed. This can not only relate to Elie and the poem but the millions of other Jewish children that were impacted by the holocaust.
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