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Artistic Responses to Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

"Song of the Oppressed"

tags: children & youth forced labor humiliation music poetry & literature religious life

type: Poem
Black Americans and World War II

Americans and the Holocaust

Abel Meeropol: "Bitter Fruit"

tags: activism group violence Jews in North America music poetry & literature refugees & immigration

type: Poem
Artistic Responses to Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Betty Straus, "Our Cabin"

tags: children & youth family hope living underground poetry & literature

type: Poem
Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

Erzsébet Frank, "The Welders"

tags: family forced labor friendship poetry & literature visual art women's experiences

type: Poem
Artistic Responses to Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Felix Noskowski and Willi Konrad, "A Birthday Epistle for Moritz Henschel"

tags: food & hunger hope poetry & literature theater Theresienstadt

type: Poem
Black Americans and World War II

Americans and the Holocaust

Langston Hughes: "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943"

tags: activism group violence poetry & literature

type: Poem
Artistic Responses to Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Leyb Kvitko, "Etele"

tags: activism antisemitism children & youth community poetry & literature

type: Poem
Artistic Responses to Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Nastia Kronenberg, HASAG poem

tags: forced labor hope loneliness poetry & literature women's experiences

type: Poem
Artistic Responses to Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Władysław Szlengel, "Bread"

tags: black market bureaucracy food & hunger ghettos law enforcement poetry & literature

type: Poem
Artistic Responses to Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Władysław Szlengel, "Final Exams"

tags: children & youth education food & hunger ghettos poetry & literature

type: Poem

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