Poems from singing behind the barbed wire
TitrePoems from singing behind the barbed wire
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0223
N° d'objet04298j
Lieu de publicationEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
EditeurUniversity of Alberta Press
Année de publication
2000
Paginationpp140-144
MatérielArticle
ISBN0888643373
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust's ghost' pp140-144
Description
Offers translated samplesof the verses composed by teenage Polish Holocaust victims, the sisters Henryka and Alona Karmel. The relevant volume was discovered by Polish theatrical and film director Wojtek Sawa in a Cracow bookstore. We are told the sisters survived the war but their subsequent history is unknown. The poems are less valuable as literature than as reminders that sentiment, romance and sensitivity could co-exist with the horror of the Holocaust.
