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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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
"Hecatomb 1941": A Song Written by a Soviet POW in a Nazi Camp
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
"Song of the Oppressed"
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Americans and the Holocaust
Abel Meeropol: "Bitter Fruit"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Betty Straus, "Our Cabin"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Bodo Morgenstern, "Hitler's Dream"
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Diary of Klara Samuels
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Erzsébet Frank, "The Welders"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Felix Noskowski and Willi Konrad, "A Birthday Epistle for Moritz Henschel"
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Americans and the Holocaust
Film of DPs Studying in Camp Grohn
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Americans and the Holocaust
Langston Hughes: "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Jakub Birnbaum to Róża Szczegowska
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Leyb Kvitko, "Etele"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Nastia Kronenberg, HASAG poem
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Natan Rotenberg, "Peace to the People of Good Will"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Samson Först, "Der Grager"
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Americans and the Holocaust
W. E. B. Du Bois: "The Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Władysław Szlengel, "Bread"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Władysław Szlengel, "Final Exams"