Whether written for publication or for private reflection, poetry and literature can express ideas and emotions in unique ways. During the years of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, poetry and literature became important means of self-expression, documentation, activism, and propaganda.
poetry & literature
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Song of the Oppressed"
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustAbel Meeropol: "Bitter Fruit"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBetty Straus, "Our Cabin"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBodo Morgenstern, "Hitler's Dream"
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustErzsébet Frank, "The Welders"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustFelix Noskowski and Willi Konrad, "A Birthday Epistle for Moritz Henschel"
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Displaced Persons and Postwar America
Americans and the HolocaustFilm of DPs Studying in Camp Grohn
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustLangston Hughes: "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943"
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Jakub Birnbaum to Róża Szczegowska
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLeyb Kvitko, "Etele"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNastia Kronenberg, HASAG poem
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNatan Rotenberg, "Peace to the People of Good Will"
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSamson Först, "Der Grager"
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustW. E. B. Du Bois: "The Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWładysław Szlengel, "Bread"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWładysław Szlengel, "Final Exams"