Bulletin board by Lane Vostad

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playing so wonderfully that tears were running down our cheeks” said a fellow prisoner

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These few hours of spiritual nourishment made many people forget the hunger and misery and long for another concert," wrote Ruth Elias,

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Everyone who tried to resist was tormented at so many level said Mary

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Sometimes prisoners on forced labor teams and in any kind of resistance, the idea of others being killed in retaliation had to be weighed out

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To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric" - yet one Holocaust survivor did precisely that. The Romanian poet Célan, whose native language was German, translated William Shakespeare's sonnets while confined to a Jewish ghetto

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in 1945 at a Nazi camp, inspired an anonymous Czech teenager to write:

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Under closed eyes he seeks among the keys

As among the veins through which blood flows softly

When you kiss them with a knife and put a song to it