Creator Bio
Else Dormitzer
1877–1958
The German poet and journalist Else Dormitzer fled from her hometown of Nuremburg to the Netherlands after November 1938; in 1943, however, she and her husband, who was to perish during the war, were deported to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. During her incarceration, Dormitzer wrote ten poems that were published in 1945 as Theresienstädter Bilder (Pictures from Theresienstadt).
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Census
Dense crowds proceed at dawn
Through Theresienstadt’s still empty streets
Five abreast curving around corners into squares.
The beast checks if anybody has stumbled.
Today God’s chosen people are…