Found Poems based on a series of Holocaust Articles

At The Killing Center: 

By – Emma Sparks

After deportation trains arrived

The guards ordered the deportees in a line

Men separated from women and children

Then to a Nazi physician

The SS officer pointed from left to right

Did not know that individuals were selected to live or die

Those who had been selected to die

Were told to rid themselves of lice

Guards threw Zyklon B pellets down the shaft

Also used to kill small insects and rats

Prisoners were forced to haul the corpse to a nearby room

Where hair, gold teeth, and fillings were removed

Bodies were burned in ovens in the crematoria’s blaze

Or buried in mass graves

The Night of Broken Glass: 

By – Jessica Burke

Destroyed!

It appears to be unplanned,

Set off by the German’s anger.

30,000 were arrested for the “crime” of being Jewish

Dozens were killed.

Destroyed!

Many Jews committed suicide,

Most families tried desperately to leave.

Nazi state imposes a fine of $100,000,000

On the Jewish community

Destroyed!

Jews are systematically excluded from

All areas of public life in Germany.

November 10^th it became known as the

Night of Broken Glass

Several dozen killed

Tens of thousands arrested

Sent to concentration camps

Destroyed!

At the killing Center: 

By – Kara Westmoreland

I pointed to the right

Selecting who would live or die

Individuals were let to gas chambers

Killing centers

Carbon Monoxide was piped into chambers

Zyklon B pellets were thrown

Killing Centers

Bodies burned in ovens

Buried in mass graves

Killing centers

Millions of Jew are killed

Killing prisoners “unfit” for work

Killing centers

Auschwitz: 

By – Aidan Sullivan

By Krakow Poland, it was made

Auschwitz – Burkenau.

With a sign that read Herbeit Mach Freir

Which means “work sets one free”

The Nazis meant the opposite

In the death camp

Auschwitz –Berkenau

They wish they were dead

The hair shaved off their head

The Jews

Killings: 

By – Paige Schrom

The handicapped were unworthy of life

They were killed by getting euthanized

The doctors supervised the killings

The bodies of the victims were burned in large ovens

Despite the public protests

The Nazi leadership continued the program in secret throughout the war

200,000 handicapped people were murdered

The handicapped were unworthy of life