https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s The Voices of the Holocaust en-us 2018-04-19 00:47:05 UTC 2018-04-27 15:39:23 UTC hello@padlet.com lwerther1_1 https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253241977 The Final Solution.
 That simple.
 That was it.
 
 I couldn’t be seeing this.
 Heil Hitler.
 Nobody is like him.
 Now you cry.
 Madman’s Hell.
 My God.
 Murderer.
 
 I see them all dead.
 Prisoner on the Hell Planet.
 No sleep and no food.
 So peaceful, so quiet.
 Ran into the barbed wire to commit suicide.
 Death march.
 Die fast.
 Surrounded.

 I don’t want to do this.
 Everybody to take care of himself.
 Never wanting to know anybody.
 They’re not going to take my soul.
 Struggling to survive.
 Don’t give up.
 Clever.
 Manpower.
 
 I promise.
 At this place.
 Historic moment.
 Tell stories.
 Safety.
 Journey.
 
 That was it.
 That simple.
 The Final Solution. ]]> 2018-04-19 00:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253241977 lwerther1_1 https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253242151 My found poem revolves around the ideas of the will to live and not giving up. I chose these themes because so many of the people that told their stories in The Last Days and Vladek in Maus didn’t give up through all the hardships they had to overcome. Listening to the stories of survivors, I thought about how courageous and mentally tough they were to endure the harshness of the Holocaust. They endured unthinkable punishments and never gave up hope and never gave up the will to stay alive. The Holocaust was a series of inhumane acts by the Nazis towards the Jews. Hitler considered them to be a race, but not as humans. 

I start in my poem with a short first stanza, repeating "that" at the beginning of the second and third lines, making the "The Final Solution" seem to be an easy step. The second stanza brings up Hitler, mentioning the sign of respect and finishing with words that describe how he appears to outsiders, how frightening he is. My third stanza describes the harsh conditions that the Jews were forced to live in, and what some people would do to escape, even if that meant death. This stanza also describes the onlooker's perspective, how they see things, and how that fuels them to keep surviving. My fourth stanza puts a lot of emphasis on what went through people's minds and how you had to focus on yourself in order to survive. My fifth stanza are what this person is looking ahead about, how they knew they were a part of something that they needed to tell the world about and how it was their duty to tell it, and in order to tell it: to not give up hope. I finish my poem with a reverse of my very first stanza, to complete the thoughts of the "simplicity" of killing all those innocent people, and how they couldn't give up the will to live. ]]> 2018-04-19 00:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253242151 lwerther1_1 https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253445360  I saw the headlines
.... I just can't believe it....
hunted animal
mashed together like sardines
feared
 Hell Planet
 were promised lies

I won't go to their gas chambers
I'll never give up my baby, never!
I don't know
I'm going to fight

terrible
 people jumped out the windows to end their misery a little quicker
so quiet
 they hanged there one full week
very tight leashes
the last time I saw my father

Nazi trap
using the Jews own fat as fuel
to surrender
remaining Jews

Auschwitz
 a false outer wall
forced
like a bolt closing us in there
And they never anymore screamed
 
 

]]> 2018-04-19 14:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253445360 lwerther1_1 https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253445581 The theme in the first stanza is definitely about despair and the lack of hope. In the first stanza I referred to the Jews as hunted animal and sardines that were mashed together. This showed how trapped they really were and incapable they were to do anything about it. I started each verse in the second stanza with I. The second stanza was all about hope. How you are able to make a change and are able to fight. I used I won't go, I'll never give up and I'm going to fight to show this theme of hope in the second stanza. The next three stanzas are all about despair. One of the verses read " people jumped out of the windows to end their misery a little quicker." This dramatically shows how they didn't have hope and were giving up. The idea of being trapped is exemplified by the words Nazi trap and like a bolt closing us in there. Which gives you the sense that you will not be able to escape and that bolt will continue closing. I would overall say my poem is about despair, but in that despair there is a glimpse of hope.]]> 2018-04-19 14:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lwerther1_1/8ws5j0jx4p0s/wish/253445581