Poetry of the Holocaust Aviva Dautch Alone on the heath

Alone on the heath

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On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son

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is and certainly both of these

Poetry of the Holocaust Aviva Dautch Alone on the heathEdited 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