Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff is darkly beautiful and while I read it I felt so ashamed for anyone that to go through that. Each poem is filled with dread but it is delivered in such a dead pan manner it’s hard to stop reading. You want to know the next awful thing the SS officers did to hate them even more. It’s so interesting that these are not his own stories or events that he’s witnessed. These are accounts taken from Nuremberg Trials. I know as a class we did a similar thing, but the Holocaust is on a whole other level. The Holocaust itself evokes such pain and disturbing images that any type of poem or story about, whether it’s yours or not, begs for a reaction.
If this has a relation to Dada I can only see the connection of shocking people. I have read multiple stories from the Holocaust, but they still shock me. There is an art to keeping these terrifying and revolting stories still relevant. If people ever become numb to the horrors to the Holocaust, or any type of genocide, then I am truly worried about the direction people are heading in the world.
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