Shoah is a documentary concerned mainly with the non-Jewish witnesses to anti-semitic persecution under Hitler’s leadership.

Invading their memories

he sought their hell

that he might understand

and make real

a world, a time–gone

but for the remembering.

His words in knife-thrust parries

exposed and subjected all

that he might gouge

their image upon his film.

 

Till at last

though still a young man,

his eyes became like theirs:

Old eyes

the eyes of the too long living

eyes where the light of life

is pale and far behind.

And his voice became the trailing

whimper as of one lost–

an echo of the voices

he had sealed in documentary.

#Shoah #HolocaustDocumentary

 

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