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loneliness
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
of history
and spoken-word traditions—it is a road map tarred in civilizational wisdom
It is seen and recognised
Poetry of the Holocaust Aviva Dautch lonelinessEdited 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
