Description: Introduction The Poems Alienation "Heritage," Hayim Gouri "Europe, Late," Dan Pagis "The Shoemaker''s Wife," Lotte Kramer "The Burning of the Books," Bertolt Brecht "First They Came for the Jews," Pastor Niemller "A Footnote Extended," Dannie Abse "Refugee Blues," W. H. Auden "How Can I See You, Love," David Vogel Persecution "1940," Bertolt Brecht "The Red Cross Telegram," Lotte Kramer "The 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," Mikls Radnti "The Butterfly," Pavel Friedmann "Elegy," Antoni Slonimski "A Cartload of Shoes," Abraham Sutzkever "How They Killed My Grandmother," Boris Slutsky (from) "Holocaust," Charles Reznikoff "The Assumption of Miriam," Jerzy Ficowski Destruction ( i ) "Death Fugue," Paul Celan "O the Chimneys," Nelly Sachs "Never Shall I Forget," Elie Wiesel "Testimony," Dan Pagis "The Roll Call," Dan Pagis "Be Seeing You," Vasko Popa "Forced March," Mikls Radnti "Postcards," Mikls Radnti "Harbach 1944," Jnos Pilinszky "Passion of Ravensbrck," Jnos Pilinszky "On the Wall of a KZ-Lager," Jnos Pilinszky "Fable, Detail from his KZ-Oratorio: Dark Heaven," Jnos Pilinszky "Roads," Peter Huchel "A Poem of Death," George Macbeth "Night over Birkenau," Tadeusz Borowski "Treblinka," Michael Hamburger "Shipment to Maidanek," Ephraim Fogel "Remembering Dresden," Van K. Brock 20( ii ) "Passover: the Injections," William Heyen "A Girl of Six from the Ghetto," Jerzy Ficowski "5.8.1942, In Memory of Janusz Korczak," Jerzy Ficowski (from) "Holocaust," Charles Reznikoff "A 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 Rzewicz "Pigtail," Tadeusz Rzewicz "In the Camp There Was One Alive," Randall Jarrell "Magda Goebbels," W. D. Snodgrass ( iii ) "Burnt," Boris Slutsky "Innocence," Thom Gunn (from) "Holocaust," Charles Reznikoff Rescuers, Bystanders, Perpetrators "Both Your Mothers," Jerzy Ficowski "1980," Abraham Sutzkever "I Did Not Manage to Save," Jerzy Ficowski "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto," Czeslaw Milosz "History and Reality," Stephen Spender "Babii Yar," Yevgeny Yevtushenko "Ovid in the Third Reich," Geoffrey Hill "September Song," Geoffrey Hill "A Camp in the Prussian Forest," Randall Jarrell "''More Light, More Light,''" Anthony Hecht "Between the Lines," Michael Hamburger "A German Requiem," James Fenton Afterwards "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 Rzewicz "Reveille," Primo Levi "The Survivor," Primo Levi "The Sun of Auschwitz," Tadeusz Borowski "Farewell to Maria," Tadeusz Borowski "The Execution of Memory," Jerzy Ficowski "My Mother''s Friend," Lily Brett "La Pathetique," Lily Brett "I, the Survivor," Bertolt Brecht "The Retum," Tadeusz Rzewicz Second Generation "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 "The Book of Yolek," Anthony Hecht "Daddy," Sylvia Plath "Against Parting," Natan Zach Lessons "Annotations of Auschwitz," Peter Porter "If," Edward Bond "How We See," Edward Bond "The Survivor," Tadeusz Rzewicz "In the Midst of Life," Tadeusz Rzewicz "Race," Karen Gershon "Synagogue in Prague," Alan Sillitoe "During the Eichmann Trial," Denise Levertov "Campo dei Fiori," Czeslaw Milosz "Posthumous Rehabilitation," Tadeusz Rzewicz "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 God ( i ) "Smoke Rose," Itamar Yaoz-Kest "Written in Pencil," Dan Pagis "Zrich, the Stork Inn," Paul Celan "Who Am I?," Dietrich Bonhoeffer "I Believe," Anonymous "What Luck," Tadeusz Rzewicz ( ii ) "Without Jews," Jacob Glatstein "Experiments With God," Karen Gershon "The Jugs," Paul Celan "Psalm," Paul Celan "After Auschwitz," Anne Sexton "Discovery," Hilda Schiff "Ani Maamin," Elie Wiesel "Shem," Primo Levi Biographical Details of Poets Index of Poets Index of Translators Index of Titles Index of First Lines Acknowledgements

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