Whatever You Can Carry: Poems of the Holocaust

Sixty-nine poems that express experiences and responses to the Holocaust by inmates of the concentration camps, Nazis, persons who saw the deportations, American soldiers who liberated the camps, the author's American Jewish family. The poet Thomas Lux has written of Herz's poems: "Not since Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz have I read a book so precise, so powerful, so terrifying."