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Finding Light in the Dark
Hope was a rare emotion to have in the death camps of the Holocaust. However, the few proofs of this emotion depicted in the arts and literature of this time are valued greatly, and show the true strength of the human soul.

Poetry
Elle Hayes

Home

I look, I look into the wide world, into the wide, distant world. I look to the southeast, I look, I look toward my home.

I look toward my home, the city where I was born. City, my city, I will gladly return to you. -Franta Bass, //I Never Saw Another Butterfly,// p. 10-11

“Writers and poets expressed artistic and  [|spiritual resistance]. In the Warsaw ghetto, **Itzhak Katzenelson** wrote hopeful poems, plays, and essays that interpreted the situation in the ghetto in light of Jewish history. In 1943, Katzenelson was deported to the Vittel camp in France (where he wrote the poem 'Song of the Murdered Jewish People'). In 1944 he was deported to the [|Auschwitz camp], where he was killed.” –__Writers and Poets in the Ghettos__

The meager amount of literature containing hope  proves that there was hardly anything art or poetry-wise that truly depicted hope. This is because there was hardly any hope for the Jews. It was only the purest souls that could still hope and record their hopes on paper. A famous example is //The Diary of a Young Girl,// by Anne Frank //.//

These pieces depicting hope are generally the most famous literary pieces of the Holocaust, as the common man turns his head when seeing the amount of evil that occurred through the Holocaust. Many journals and diaries were kept by children during the Holocaust. It allowed children to reveal their deepest fears and secrets during one of the darkest points in history. These diaries are crucial pieces to uncovering facts about the Holocaust. For more information about diaries and their authors during the Holocaust, click [|here.]

Artwork
Maddie Welsh

An example of artwork displaying hope, would be the drawing shown above. Petr Ginz was a 14 years old boy in the Theresienstat ghetto. During his stay in the ghetto, he drew a picture of the earth's view from the moon. This picture was called "Moon Landscape." This picture, was this Jewish boys dream, in hopes of one day leaving everything behind and going somewhere far away.

Not only did Petr Ginz draw to express himself, he also kept a diary. In this diary, he wrote about absolutely everything. His diary was eventually published by his sister, Eva. This young boy had enough hope for everyone. He would write about how things would get better. As he once wrote in his diary, "They do this for only one purpose-to destroy! Not us physically, but spiritually and morally. Will they succeed? Never! Deprived of our former sources of culture, we shall create new ones."