Lest We Forget: Poems in Remembrance

by Chapin-Pinotti, Elizabeth Anne

• ISBN13: 9781450539081
• ISBN10: 1450539084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-26
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

Lest We Forget: Poems in Remembrance is a collection of poems dedicated to those who survived the holocaust and those who did not. It is a collection that echoes the horrors of a time in history that cannot rest within the pages of our texts, but must be discussed and studied again and again and again so that history does not repeat itself and the goodness of humanity forever overshadows its capabilities. "... in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again." - Anne Frank For, while I believe as Anne Frank did, "...that people are really good at heart..." I understand that those hearts must be nurtured and lead towards what is right and just and fair. We owe it to her, to the millions more who suffered and continue to suffer...and we owe it to our children...to talk and teach and tell the stories of the real people who experienced the darkest depths of human nature.