Sonia Weitz was born in Krakow, Poland. At age 11, she and her family were forced into ghettos by the Nazis. She and her sister were the only members of her family to survive the ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocast. At an early age, she turned to poetry to cope with her emotions. Years after the Holocaust, she wrote this poem: Come, take this giant leap with me into the other world . . . the other place where language fails and imagery defies, denies man’s consciousness . . . and dies upon the altar of insanity. Come, take this giant leap with me into the other world . . . the other place and trace the eclipse of humanity . . . where children burned while mankind stood by and the universe has yet to learn why . . . has yet to learn why.

Question

using this context what is the message of this poem in 2 sentences

Answer 1

The message of this poem, written by Sonia Weitz, is a powerful call to confront the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust, highlighting the failure of language and man's consciousness to fully comprehend the depths of inhumanity. It also implores the world to remember the millions of innocent lives lost and questions why such atrocities occurred and continue to exist in our universe.