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Understanding Genocide
JEAN BOASE-BEIER introduces some of the poetry that help us to understand genocides past and present
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ON Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the victims of the Nazi Holocaust in 1940s Europe and all those affected by later genocides.

I believe that reading poetry is an important way to commemorate these victims because it is such a personal form.

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