Poetry of the Holocaust Summer Bulletin But they are more than

But they are more than poems

After publishing her first collection

Alongside an often rueful clarity there is much wit

international selection of 'real poems for unreal times'

Joseph Roth

Poetry of the Holocaust Summer Bulletin But they are more thanEdited 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