Poetry of the Shoah:

The Poet Rilke once said,he was afraid that if his demons left, his angels would leave also. With that he dismissed psychoanalysis as a means of healing. The demons and angels attending the poetry of the Shoah are significant allies: in tormenting beauty they have provided an understanding of the victims in the depth of the Spirit which God only insists a few tolerate. To write of history without passion is to conduct a mathematical study; to speak of politics and economics, sociology and psychology is to put on spectacles of distance which may provide 'objectivity', as if there were such a thing, but which removes the truth from its soul and heart. The poetry below while not exclusively, was written mostly by the survivors of the Genocide which should have put an end to all genocides and instead put an end to the modern heart. It is among the best poetry every written, the most intense and the most agonizing. It teaches the Shoah in a way volumes never will. A note to the user: because it is raw truth, it is usually far to intense for the timid; most is not for very young readers.