Poem on the book Night and the Holocaust

Poem on the book Night and the Holocaust

   

The Holocaust: A time when the unthinkable was thinkable

Where millions were silenced with the thick smoke of the crematories

When a nightmare for most, turned into a reality for some

Where numerous civilians danced upon injustice

To liberate, to save, and to free the Jews

But their attempts were too late-

Over six million innocent lives were lost

But we must never forget these horrid events that took place in

Auschwitz, Bushenwald, Dachau, Buna

For it can never happen again

Moshe the Beadle, perhaps a prophet,

One of the first sent to the concentration camps

By miracle he escaped and returned to his hometown of Sighet

His stories shared as warning about the Nazis and the camps

But it was of no use- he was ignored and called a madman

A year passed, ghettos were established by the police for the worthless Jews,

Expensive possessions were seized by police,

Life was taking a cruel turn

This was only the beginning

Elie Wiesel, a young teenager from the small town of Sighet

Thrown into an eighty person cattle car along with his family

Headed for an unknown destination

The nightmare had just begun

Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!

People in the cattle cars looked around

But everyone could take a deep breath now- for there was no fire

And Madame Schachter was only dreaming

But they would soon see the corpse- fueled fire rising out of the air of Auschwitz

The Jews were treated like dirt as they walked through the gates of the death factories

They were stepped on like snow, given little rations of food, and forced to run

When will this nightmare end

When will this nightmare end

Every night in the cold blocks at the camps

They prayed, and prayed, and prayed

But it was of no use

There was no god, no god that would ever let this evil exist

They prayed that one day,

One person would rise above to liberate the camps

But their wish did not come true

Days, weeks, months, years passed

Not one person came to the aid of the Jews

Elie’s father went down the same road as many others before him

The Jews weak and thin from the meager food

He could take no more- and was transported to the gates of heaven-

No chance for Elie to say goodbye, the nightmare continued

1945: The death camps were liberated

But this was not the end to this horror story

If the Holocaust hadn’t happened,

The percentage of Jew in our world would have been 0.5%

Instead,

It’s just 0.2%

Hitler-

The head of this infamous plan to exterminate the Jews

Silenced the voices of over 6 million people

Affected the lives of over 7 billion people

But we must never forget

For it can never happen again