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    Holocaust Poems and Those of Life Changing Events
    Holocaust Poems and Those of Life Changing Events
    Holocaust Poems and Those of Life Changing Events
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    Holocaust Poems and Those of Life Changing Events

    By Richard Kalfus

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    Poems to heal the soul (Holocaust themes, the power of touch)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPage Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateJun 9, 2021
    ISBN9781662424199
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      Holocaust Poems and Those of Life Changing Events - Richard Kalfus

      Chapter 1

      About the Poet

      Return to Washington Heights

      Is it self-indulgence to think

      our personal life-stories

      have relevance for others?

      Are we perhaps only healing ourselves

      when we reach into the reservoir

      of the past?

      Can we speak to others of painful events

      with special meaning only for us?

      So it is when I reach into my Holocaust past,

      marked forever by these events.

      Nowhere but in Washington Heights, Manhattan

      is this more evident.

      Where the largest number of German Jewish Holocaust

      survivors in America live.

      I have returned to Washington Heights

      to streets of 22 years ago.

      I marvel again at the beauty of Fort Tryon Park

      overlooking the splendid Hudson River.

      I hear German accented English

      as in my childhood,

      struck by the humor of New York Jews,

      mixing Americanisms with German regionalism.

      I see 80-year-old Mrs. Dingfelder

      born in a Black Forest farm village,

      sitting, in a lawn chair

      in front of her 6-floor apartment building

      quite lost in thought

      (memories of the trauma of the past or simply old age?)

      There goes Mr. Marks entering the kosher bakery.

      I don’t need to go inside to know

      what he is ordering:

      the family’s braided Sabbath Chale

      I continue to be touched by Orthodox Mr. Simon

      walking to Saturday services,

      without money

      his apartment keys hanging from his belt.

      On Friday

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