This week, Beate (https://sigriddaughter.net/), the former Poet Laureate of Silver City, New Mexico, and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "Dancing in Santa Fe" and "I Couldn't Visit Dachau," and living with guilt.
You can read "Dancing in Santa Fe" in its entirety at https://www.culturalweekly.com/beate-sigriddaughter-dancing-santa-fe/
and "I Couldn't Visit Dachau" at https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2020/02/i-couldnt-visit-dachau-by-imogen-arate.html
Take a listen to also find out about poetry events taking place in the valley during the week of February 3rd.
Photo of Beate Sigriddaughter by Michael Schulte
You can also follow Beate on:
1. https://www.facebook.com/beate.sigriddaughter
2. Writing In A Woman's Voice blog, where she posts other women's voices: http://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/
All of Beate's books are available on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Beate-Sigriddaughter/e/B00ISFFRQ6?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1576513801&sr=8-1
Links to subjects we touched on:
German-Jewish population circa 1933: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/germany-jewish-population-in-1933
National origins of Jews in Auschwitz: http://auschwitz.org/en/history/categories-of-prisoners/jews-in-auschwitz/countries-of-origin
Countries and regions that protected Jews during the Holocaust: https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/holocaust-facts-the-rescues-1.5314478
Atomic bombing of Japanese cities during WWII: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/a/the-manhattan-project-and-the-atomic-bomb
Coco Chanel’s dalliances with the Duke of Westminster: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/sleeping-with-the-enemy-coco-chanels-secret-war-by-hal-vaughan-book-review.html
Drone pilots suffer PTSD: https://www.livescience.com/47475-drone-operators-develop-ptsd.html
Role of historical hatred in the Bosnian genocides: https://www.hoover.org/research/beyond-ancient-hatreds
The Milgram Shock Experiment: https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
Nazi scientists in secret US program: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-us-government-brought-nazi-scientists-america-after-world-war-ii-180961110/
The White Rose: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-secret-student-group-stood-up-nazis-180962250/
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