In Evidence: Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
by Barbara Helfgott Hyett
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986
Paper: 978-0-8229-5376-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-9192-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3558.E4744I5 1986
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
Paper: 978-0-8229-5376-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-9192-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3558.E4744I5 1986
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the sprong of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a songle narrative, a single voice.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Barbara Helfgott Hyett's poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Massachusetts Review, and many other magazines. A teacher of writing at Boston University, she has edited the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor as well as several anthologies of poems by children.
REVIEWS
"In Evidence is as stark as the stark realities it confronts. The 'liberation" its poems describe was a liberation only for a frightening few sad survivors. For the dead, and for the rest of humanity, it was a condemnation of the soul from which in some ways we shall never recover. This is a valuable and unfortunately a necessary work."
—C. K. Williams
—C. K. Williams
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Spring, 1945
- “I'm Sitting in”
- “You Have to Believe”
- “Even Though it Was War”
- “There Was a Canister”
- “I Was Walking Past”
- “The Major Was”
- “My Friend Mo Greenberg”
- “We Were American”
- “After I Was Shot Down”
- “You Understand, I Was Mad”
- Opening the Gates
- “A Shock Wave Ran through”
- “In Our Battalion”
- “What They Had Was a Moat”
- “As We Rolled Over”
- “I Rode into Dachau”
- “A Wagon with Rubber Tires”
- “And There Was a Train”
- “When We Came upon”
- “Eight Freight Cars”
- “In Those Stinking Cars”
- “In One Car, Sitting”
- “I Got Physically”
- “It Was a Warm Summer Day”
- “Compassion”
- “We Had Orders to Extend”
- “We Met No”
- “We Came in Twenty”
- “Taking Things Away”
- “We Used to Just”
- “I Was Alone”
- “We Were Told We Were”
- “As We Drove into”
- “I Was One Of the Few”
- “I Was Right There”
- “I'm Not Well Educated”
- “The First Thought”
- The Prisoners
- “Our Men Cried”
- “We Walked into”
- “Their Clothes Were Rags”
- “How Do They Keep Themselves”
- “Too Weak to Stand, They Lay”
- “I Yelled Christ”
- “I Never Have Seen”
- “In Some Of the Bunks, the Men”
- “There is an Artist”
- “They'd Approach Us”
- “We Were Afraid”
- “In the Jewish Undefined”
- “Black Bread, Dark Bread”
- “Human Beings. These”
- “We Asked Them for Names”
- “A Prisoner Gave Me a Boat”
- “One Man Wanted to”
- “He Asked Me for Cigarettes”
- “One Prisoner”
- “Whatever We Had We Gave Freely”
- “I Was the Chaplain's Assistant”
- “When We Met the Inmates”
- “In the Children's Cell Block”
- “At the Hospital We Were”
- “We Really Didn't Camp”
- “I Used to Speak of”
- “My Task Was Separating”
- “That Afternoon, I Gave”
- “We Tried to Coax”
- “I Had a Dog with Me”
- “Dead Men. I Think”
- “The Smell Was Mingled Death”
- “Wedding Rings, Lockets”
- Ashes
- “The Barracks Had”
- “Cedar Posts”
- “The Bunks Were Logs”
- “At the End of the Room”
- “And I Went in”
- “We Were Shown the Special”
- “It Was Bleak and”
- “The Gas Chamber”
- “When We Saw”
- “The Cookery Was a”
- “The Crematory Was Divided”
- “The Ovens Were”
- “And There Were”
- “Near the Crematoria, I”
- “At Buchenwald, They”
- “Just Outside”
- “Ashes Were Still”
- “The Final Solution”
- “Any Evidence”
- “The Ovens”
- “You Know, the Funny Thing is”
- The Guards
- “Our Captain Told Us”
- “We Didn't Know Who”
- “I Didn't See a Guard”
- “At My Guardpost”
- “One Night, Walking”
- “I Saw Them Dismember People”
- “We Had Caught Two”
- “As We Left”
- “They Had Taken an SS”
- “Just before We Packed up”
- “I Don't Know That”
- The Way Back
- “And There Were Pits”
- “The First Mass”
- “The Next Day”
- “We Could Never”
- “Outside the Camp, before”
- “There Was a Small Farm”
- “They Were Very Bitter”
- “Here These People Are”
- “These Prisoners, These Laboring Folk”
- “As Much as We Tried”
- “We Were on Our Way”
- “In the Hedgerows”
- “Our General”
- “In Salzburg, I Met”
- “In the Town”
- “A Prisoner of War Told Me”
- “In Wörgl, in Austria”
- “Now the Inmates”
- “At This Theater in Munich”
- “You've Got a Bunch of Soldiers”
- “Six Demitasse Cups and Six”
- “There's No Conversation”
- “The German Army”
- “Am I to Judge”
- “When I Talked to”
- After the War
- “One Guy”
- “I'm Being Asked to Relive”
- “Everything That Happened, Happened”
- “Even Though I Was Scared”
- “After the War, I”
- “When I First Came”
- “In a Nuclear War”
- “The Enemy Firing”
- “My Father Came from”
- “I've Sold Cars”
- “Some of My Best Friends”
- “This Little Car”
- “I Have a Flag That Flew”
- “At the University Theatre”
- The Veterans
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