Holocaust + Genocide = Jews

 

She is a woman of grace, courage and

accomplishment with an exceptional

experience as a former inmate of Auschwitz

who survived the ordeals she was exposed 

to, the privations, the misery and fear and lived 

to tell of her impressions in a novel that 

mirrored her forlorn despair at the enforced

inhuman state of deprivation and doubt.

Inspired to write of what she knew and felt

her book attracted a wide spectrum of readers

and a contract for a film based on her novel

based on her early life and eventual freedom.

Described a Holocaust survivor, a nomenclature

that elevates her to the esteem of a public that

acknowledges six million Jews were the targets

of a fascist ideology committed to wholesale

destruction of an 'inferior race', she is not that.

Along with other Poles, citizens of France

political dissenters, critics of the Third Reich

she spent wasted years a prisoner of conscience.

Literary honours bestowed upon her well earned

through her historical accounting, a life spared to

bear witness. Not as a Holocaust survivor, but a 

survivor of misfortune in a costly world conflict

between unadulterated evil and banal humanity.