Description
Book SynopsisWritten largely in the words of a fifteen-year-old survivor, these poems provide historical entry into the Holocaust. Put simply, the poems explore the reality of the events experienced by Judith Sherman in her determination to survive.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Arthur Kleinman
- Preface
- Poems of Before
- This Time
- I Too Have a Dream
- Because
- My Grandfather
- Serious Men
- Poems of the Holocaust
- My Village of Kurima
- It Is the Law
- The Law of the Land
- My Suitcase and I
- Morning Mass
- Toothbrush
- Gestapo Prison
- Mirjam's Letter from Hiding
- Unhiding in the Forest
- Hiding in the Forest
- Karpu in Auschwitz
- Such Good Taste
- Wagon Train
- Auschwitz
- Lord
- SS Man
- Knew You Then
- Morning Prayer
- During Appell
-
Appell Guard
- Magda Speaks kein Deutsch
- Come Messiah
- Hunger
- Hunger, Do Not Intrude
- Let Not Flowers Here
- The Invitation
- An Apple in Ravensbruck
- My Ravensbruck Love Song
- I Know a Dog
- Ravensbruck
- Jesus, Tell Your Father
- Stand Still, Sun
- The Roma Girl
- Ravensbruck Friend
- Shoes for Life
- The Mirror in My Right Shoe
- A Brief Reprieve
- You Are Invited to My Funeral
- Reluctant Witness
- Resistance of Prisoner 83,621
- Death March
- I Say Damn You
- Liberation
- Trees I Say
- Death, Stand Aside at My Liberation Time
- Poems of After
- Once You Survive
- No More Hide-and-Seek
- Tell Me This
- This Year in Jerusalem
- That You Should Know
- Legacy Poem
- Do Something
- Accountability
- 9/11: Has Anybody Seen My Dad?
- My Darfur Mother
- Bosnia Boy
- To Walk in My Shoes
- I Smile, I Smile
- Fresh Washed Sheets
- Sunrise
- Summer Woods
- If God Is Dead
- Are Things Changed in Heaven
- How You Are?
- Oversight
- If You Apologize
- Let Me Win
- A Ladder for God
- We Should Talk
- Survivor's Voice Today
- Survivor's Message
- Say the Name
- Afterword
- Ilana Gelb
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
