Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Use for works that ARE in forms such as these variant terms:
Lyrics (Poetry)
Poems
Poetic literature
Rhymes (Poetry)
Rimes (Poetry)
Verse (Poetry)
Verses (Poetry)For works ABOUT Poetry, use the LCSH topical heading
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
"Encounter" Poem, June 1942
Item
Identifier: B333.02.0001.0002.00017
Abstract
An poem by Thekla Stoll circulated among the Jews in Berlin, Germany. The poem speaks of the despair of the Jews' condition and the hope the author sees in the spirit of the Jews. Translation from Henry Lowenstein: "Today I saw 1,000 disturbed people, Today I saw 1,000 Jews, wandering into oblivion, Into the gray of the cold morning drew the condemned Leaving behind what once was their life. They stepped through the gates, glancing back, As they left everything outside, their homeland,...
Dates:
June 1942
Miscellaneous Correspondence and Exhibit Coverage, 1995-1999
File
Identifier: B424.01.0001.0002
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Sharon Berkowitz Portrait Collection consists of materials related to the donor and photographer's portraiture project on Holocaust survivors in Denver. Included in the collection are seventeen large scale mounted photographic prints used for exhibition at the Denver City and County Building in May 1997 and accompanying labels. The original negatives and prints from the portrait sessions are also contained in the archive as well as miscellaneous documents relating to the portraiture...
Dates:
1995-1999
Walter Stoll, 1942-1947
File
Identifier: B111.09.0009.0026
Abstract
Folder contains copies of transcribed letters from 1942-1947. Correspondence was saved by donor’s father, Max Stoll, and contains letters from family members in Germany and Theresienstadt. Collection also contains a poem written by the donor’s aunt, Thekla Stoll titled Encounter. The same poem was saved by Maria Lowenstein and is in the Lowenstein collection, B333.
Dates:
1942-1947