Holocaust Poetry Index

The HyperTexts

Holocaust Poetry, Prose, Photography and Art
Nakba Poetry, Prose, Photography and Art
Poetry and Prose about Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide, including Poems about Gaza, Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, the Homeless, Hiroshima, Iran and the Trail of Tears

compiled by Michael R. Burch

This index of Holocaust poetry, prose, photography and art is the result of many years of work by poets, essayists, translators, photographers and artists, to document what actually happened during the Holocaust and to say "Never again!" to other similar atrocities. While the meaning of the word "holocaust" can be debated, it cannot be debated that other atrocities have happened in the past (such as the Trail of Tears and the devastation of the lives of multitudes of native Americans during the colonization of North and South America), or that millions of completely innocent women and children continue to suffer in Darfur, Gaza and Occupied Palestine even today. As the editor of The HyperTexts, I consider it my duty to show the world what really did happen during the Jewish Shoah (Hebrew for "Catastrophe") and what really is happening today during the Palestinian Nakba (Arabic for "Catastrophe"). Whenever we see innocent women and children being herded into walled ghettos and concentration camps and collectively punished for the "crime" of having been born to the "wrong" race or creed, we should shudder and remember that, as George Santayana said, "Those who do no learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

The poem "Auschwitz Rose" by
Michael R. Burch is dedicated to
the victims and survivors of the
Holocaust: "Never again!"

To read the poem "Auschwitz Rose" please click the hyperlinked title of the poem above, or the picture. In Mary Rae's painting, the Rose is thornless, and thus defenseless, representing women and children who are defenseless, unless we choose to protect them. As we read the words of the Witnesses that follow, let us all pledge to say "Never again!" and to do what we can and must to protect all women and children from all such atrocities.

Holocaust Children Skeletons Emaciated

Main Collections of Poetry and Prose Related to Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

Holocaust Poetry
The NAKBA
The Path to Peace in the Middle East
What I Learned from Elie Wiesel
For Darfur
Poems for Gaza
The Children of Gaza Speak: Who Will Listen?
At Death's Door: a Story of Gaza
Jewish Ghetto Poets
Poems for Haiti
The Holocaust of the Homeless
Hiroshima Poetry, Prose and Art
The Trail of Tears
Genocide Poetry

The Elders Speak on Racial Injustices and Apartheid

Einstein on Palestine
Mohandas Gandhi on Palestine
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Palestine
The Elders on Palestine
Vanessa Redgrave: A Passion for Justice
Gideon Levy
Avraham Burg: the Prophet-Poet of Judaism
Read what over 200 Jewish humanitarian organizations have to say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
William Blake on Children's Rights
Professor Norman Finkelstein

Holocaust Child Skeleton

Individual Poets and Writers: the Witnesses

Dan Almagor
Nadia Anjuman
Hanan Ashrawi
Mahnaz Badihian
Rachel Corrie
Mahmoud Darwish
Anita Dorn
Chaya Feldman
Jerzy Ficowski
Anthony Hecht
Nahida Izzat
Sheema Kalbasi
Janusz Korczak
Yala Korwin
Salomon N. Meisels
Reuven Moskovitz
Pope John Paul II
Vilem Pollak
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Miklós Radnóti
Wladyslaw Szlengel
Iqbal Tamimi
Takashi “Thomas” Tanemori
Fadwa Tuqan
Bronislawa Wajs ("Papusza")
Elie Wiesel
What I Learned from Elie Wiesel
Tawfik Zayyad

Holocaust Mass Graves

Contemporary Poets and Writers on the Holocaust and Other Atrocities

Peter Austin
Michael R. Burch
Yakov Azriel
David Burnham
Charles Adés Fishman
John Z. Guzlowski
Roger Hecht
Federico Garcia Lorca
Christina Pacosz
Sean M. Teaford
Joseph McDonough
Edward Nudelman

German Nazi Soldier Shooting Jews

Students

Brian Coleman
Fardin Mohammadi
Holocaust Poetry and Art by Students

Related Pages: Other Poems, Essays, etc.

In the photos to follow, the pictures on the left are from the Jewish Shoah ("Catastrophe"), while the pictures on the right are from the Palestinian Nakba ("Catastrophe"). The Germans make the Jews a "special case" during the Holocaust, and you can see the results on the left. Now Jews have made the Palestinians a "special case" and you can see the results on the right. When will the world say "Never again!" to all such atrocities?

Who the hell was Furkan Dogan, and why should we care?
Night Labor, a poem for Rachel Corrie, a young peace activist who died in Rafah
Nashville's Freedom Walk for Palestinians