dated Dec. 23, 1941, the Romanian teen-ager wrote:This is the hardest: to give yourself away
and then to see that no one needs you,
to give all of yourself and realize
you'll fade like smoke and leave no trace.
Selma [Meerbaum-Eisinger] died a year later of typhus in a Nazi labor camp, but her handwritten album of poetry survived--passed between the hands of Selma's friends across Europe before ending up in Israel.
from Duke News: Duke Anthropologist Translates Poems Lost During Holocaust
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