An article from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fate of Jewish refugees in the 1930s. Shelia Hancock recites 'Refugee Blues' for Holocaust Memorial Day, 2017.

Auden's life-long struggle with whether or not to write politically engaged poems. A detailed biography of the British poet from the Poetry Foundation. A detailed introduction to the Holocaust from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, with links to many other resources on the history of the Holocaust. Line 36: “Looking for you and me, my dear, looking for you and me.”.Line 33: “Not one of them was ours, my dear, not one of them was ours.”.Lines 31-32: “a thousand floors, / A thousand windows and a thousand doors:”.Line 30: “They weren't the human race, my dear, they weren't the human race.”.Line 27: “Only ten feet away, my dear, only ten feet away.”.Line 24: “But they weren't German Jews, my dear, but they weren't German Jews.”.Line 21: “O we were in his mind, my dear, O we were in his mind.”.Line 18: “He was talking of you and me, my dear, he was talking of you and me.”.

Line 15: “But where shall we go to-day, my dear, but where shall we go to-day?”.Line 12: “But we are still alive, my dear, but we are still alive.”.Line 9: “Old passports can't do that, my dear, old passports can't do that.”.Line 6: “We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now.”.Line 3: “Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.”.

Line 2: “Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:”.

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