Poetry of the Holocaust Summer Bulletin and to empathise on an

and to empathise on an individual level with the many people who suffered

But they are more than poems

and available to be known and understood

David Wheatley and Mary O’Donoghue

international selection of 'real poems for unreal times'

Poetry of the Holocaust Summer Bulletin and to empathise on anEdited and Translated by Jean Boase Beier and Marian de Vooght. Some Holocaust poems were written before the full catastrophe unfolded, as a warning or to express fear or foreboding. Others were written when the Nazi killing had begun, in a ghetto or concentration camp, in hiding, or in exile, or by someone who was not directly caught up in events, but was affected by them. And often poetry was written later, reflecting on loss, or the effects of the