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Title

S.S. Schatten Schmidt

Author(s)

Emma Albers-Lopez, Augustana College, Rock Island IllinoisFollow

Course

FYI-102 From Ashes to Immortality: Music and the Holocaust

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

2017

Disciplines

European History | Jewish Studies | Music

Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement

This poem attempts to display the horrors that prisoners in Auschwitz endured, but also the internal struggles of S.S. guards. It has a large focus on music in the camp.

This poem has a personal connection to my family. My great-grandmother did steal Nazi flags to make clothes for her six children. The seventh child was killed in the way that is explained in the poem. That seventh child is where I received my name "Emma". It was a privilege to honor my namesake through this poem.

Comments

Prize Winner, 2017

Augustana Digital Commons Citation

Albers-Lopez, Emma. "S.S. Schatten Schmidt" (2017). Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/geifmanprize/7

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.