Inscribed and dated by author...A collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the spring of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. during interviews with the soldier in Boston in 1982. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a single narrative, a single voice.
A collection of poems in the voice of and based on the testimony of U.S. soldiers who participated in the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. The poems describe the initial encounter with the camps, the prisoners and guards, and how the experience affected the soldiers who saw them.