Yom HaShoah commemorates the voices silenced by the Holocaust and honors the resistance efforts during this time. April is National Poetry Month and so we offer up several collections of poetry that invite readers to reflect on the tragedy of the Holocaust.
The Book of Anna by Joy Ladin
Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971 – 2021 by Irena Klepfisz
Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto by Paul B. Janeczko
Aunt Bird by Yerra Sugarman
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony by Abraham Sutzkever, translated and edited by Justin D. Cammy
New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust edited by Matthew Silverman and Howard Debs
How to Spot One of Us: Poems by Janet R. Kirchheimer