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Understanding Genocide
JEAN BOASE-BEIER introduces some of the poetry that help us to understand genocides past and present

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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