A crust of bread and a little soup

They shot all of them

Nobody could do anything

The Nazis divided Poland

Protected Houses

A Bunker

This was Pure Fiction 

you were a Hunted Animal 

Inspectors are Coming

The Demons have taken away my-

My parents.

My identity.

My siblings.

My soul.

Medical Examination

A Separation

Pushing us towards that destination

Sonderkommandos 

Gas Chambers 

Crematoriums

What happened to them,

Gone Crazy

Where is God?

Dead

we’ll never get out of Here

taken away

my soul

my siblings

my identity

my parents

i was a jew 

prisoner of war

     The second stanza is the longest of them all, which really doesn’t do much symbolically for the poem, but rather paints the picture of the war against the Jews. The imprisoners are made explicit in the first line of the stanza, saying how the Nazis had divided Poland. This line can be taken as that Poland was literally divided into the borders of the protectorate or the reich, or can be taken as divided between the semites, and the anti semites. Which further highlights the war and divide between the prisoners and their connection to the outside world. The lines then continue to talk about the hiding places the prisoners had, the safe havens they had from their prisoners that were in reality, not safe at all. It describes the animalistic and brutality to the hunting of jews, describing the jews as prey to the predators thay were the anti semites. “The Demons” refers to the Nazis and how they stripped many things from the Jews in their trip through the camps. Which is followed by a list of things taken from them. Which ultimately ends with with their souls signifying the deaths that tolled by the end. 
 The third stanza is the shortest mostly because it has the least significance. It is mostly used to keep rhythm in the poem but it also describes the isolation the Jews went through during this painful time.

     The fourth stanza talks about the horrors of the exterminations camps, the perspective of which is up to interpretation. Whether it is the Jews who are observing the Sonderkommandos or the Sonderkommandos themselves looking at the massacre they were taking part of.

    The final stanza then highlights the lost again and the true weight of what the prisoners lost. Having everything in all lowercase to signify how the Jews were belittled and forgotten and did not stand out yet we’re still persecuted. Throughout the poem the use of pronouns that describe the prisoners are all lowercase, giving the same meaning as above, which then contrasts by making all of the other nouns  capitalized and standing above the others.