Hilda Schiff's Holocaust Poetry is a pwoerful collection. It is a collection of poetry by people who lived through the holocaust. Poetry by people who died during the Holocaust. Poetry by people who are descendants of the people who experienced the Holocaust. It expresses the alientation and persecution that people experienced in the ghetto's and the concentration camps. It shows the destruction of their lives, their families, their homes, and their world as they knew it. It also shows how people's beliefs in God changed through their experience during the time of the Holocaust. Lastly, it shows how after the Holocaust was over, that the effects of it still carried on through the generations.

One poem that shows the alienation and persecution that the victims of the Holocaust went through is "First They Came for the Jews" by Pastor Neimoller. This poem shows how first the Jews were...