World War2 poetry blog has been updated with the first of at least two posts about the destruction of the Czech village of Lidice on 10th June...
Have started my first blog post about Lidice and the C. Day-Lewis poem. Discovered that a poet called Viktor Fischl wrote a poem titled 'The Dead...
Thank you to everyone who has posted on this thread. A great discussion. I am very tempted to visit Lidice myself now. Will update my World War 2...
Lou - Thank you. Good to see the comparison between the two films. 'Antrophoid' seemed faster moving with a more crowded street scene. Just...
Indeed wm. Information appreciated as always. Just been reading over the aforementioned Lezaky memorial site. Yes, hamlet is probably a more...
Thank you once again wm. Had heard of 'Atentat' but not 'Sokolovo'. It is quite an interesting exercise to compare how different films have...
That's great wm. Appreciate the details that you have supplied. Thank you. There is also a further movie titled 'Anthropoid' from 2016 , there is...
....And another from a 2017 film 'HHhH' , starts about 2 minutes in. From what I can gather. Heydrich was driven most days from a villa where...
Indeed wm. It seems that film scriptwriters offer different scenarios ! Here is the 2011 movie scene [MEDIA]
Found a poem about Lidice in a collection by C. Day Lewis titled 'Word All Over' . Want to write about it for my blog so thought that it was time...
Have managed to include a poem on the Worldwar2poetry.blogspot.com from the lost Holocaust diary of Renia Spiegel , a Polish Jew who was...
Have written up some thoughts on Renia Spiegel and have reproduced a poem from the diary on my blog. The English translation of the diary should...
wm- I have just found a clip about Ariana Spiegel . Seems that there was recently a fund raising appeal to raise cash for a film about the...
The Dutch language musical 'Soldaat van Oranje ' , has been performing for nine years now, in a specially constructed venue- a former aircraft...
Greetings wm. Yes apologies, I have managed to spell Renia's surname both as 'Speigel' and 'Spiegel' ! Indeed, should be the latter -Spiegel. I...
An English translation of the diary of Renia Speigel a young Jewish Polish woman, discovered in hiding in Premzysl and shot by Germans on 30th...
Have updated the blog to feature 'London Before Invasion 1940' by Glasgow born poet J.F.Hendry, written in 1940. J.F. Hendry was consider a...
Just discovered this website :Holocaust Poetry from the Yiddish - Poetry in Hell Describes itself thus "Poetry in Hell is a web site dedicated...
World War 2 poetry blog just updated to feature the poem 'A Small Station called Treblinka' by Wladyslaw Szlengel ,who was known as the poet of...
Been reading over this thread, as writing a post about Wladyslaw Szlengel the 'poet of the Warsaw Ghetto' who was executed by the Germans on 8th...
