Julie


 * Julie Martinelli**
 * Found Poem**

Why Us?

It puzzled me It puzzled the world A tragedy among triages Kill the Jews

Before we lived a simplistic life We lived in towns where everybody knew each other We were happy

We were Hungarians Judaism, it was just our religion World War II Everybody was worried We thought, Just another thing it will blow over

Gunshots More gunshots It’s horrible Just shot right on the spot

A war against the Jews Why us? Why do they hate us? They were are friends

Struggling to survive It’s like a battle field outside Work camps With piled bodies This is the end

Were hunted animals 24 hours a day My mind is going Unbelievable They were are friends Totally unreal

I just don’t want to live Will I survive? Where is god? Why us? Why the Jews?

I chose to write about faith. I think this is imported because looking back on the Holocaust everyone just asks why? Why did Hitler do what he did? Why did he target the Jews? I don’t think that there’s simple answer to that. I think that he did it because you could he know that he could. He had a great amount of power and people would listen to him. He got his self in to a lot of trouble and need someone to blame. So he went after a group of people that didn’t know what was coming. The Jews were so shocked at what was happening and didn’t know why it was happening. They didn’t want to believe it was happening. They were confused on why people they were friends with all of a sudden hated them. With the events happening I would imagine that they turned to god and faith. Everything happens for a reason. What else were they going to believe? They had no idea what made them a target.
 * Rationale**