Re-reading Holocaust through the Lens of Jewish Poetry
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Environment, Destruction, Holocaust, Jewish sufferingAbstract
The history of mankind is replete with wars across centuries. A country may win or face defeat, but the environment, not an active participant in the gory war, is always a loser at the end. Besides, human and infrastructural loss, war brings great loss to the environment and ecology. The destruction of ecology and nature represents a threat to the human race. The Holocaust, which took place between 1941 and 1945, was a human catastrophe, an evil committed against humanity in world history. Moving beyond human catastrophe, the connection with the ecological crisis is also traumatic. Against this background, the present paper focuses on the Holocaust poems of three Holocaust poets: Pavel Friedmann’s poem “The Butterfly,” Elie Wiesel’s poem “Never Shall I Forget,” and Eva Pickova’s poem “Fear,” are textually analysed to showcase that the Nazi regime not only tortured and killed the Jews but also brought about barbarianism among others, that is Roma (Gypsies), disabled people, political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, etc., who suffered in different concentration camps.
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