Friday, April 5, 2013

the dark comes to the light


Leroy Scott
We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was
Killing centers, labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies
Pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth;
20 million people died or were imprisoned in the sites enslaved in five camps in five years
Women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel.
Dig trenches that were used for dumping the bodies of victims
SS officer murdered six Jewish children, poor children aged 6 to 12
The dogs barking in the night              
This is my cemetery cruelty and slaughter of the camps
German soldiers shouting, "Dirty Jew."

I chose all these words because they reminded me of the book night that we had read in english class and this found poem shows how harshly treated all these jewish people were. The point the poem makes is that jewish people were treated very harshly during the war. It was harder than i thought it would be making a found poem. i looked up the holocaust and took lines and words from the article. i think it was pretty worth i look at like why not plus its school work.

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