"Victory" By Sonia Weitz

The poem I chose to write about is “Victory”, by Sonia Weitz. This poem is about Sonia’s first and last dance with her father in the concentration camp. It is pretty emotional, the words she used and the way she arranged them give the poem sadness, but also a tiny bit of joy. Joy, because despite all the chaos and horror around them, they were able to have a moment of happiness and love. I really like how Sonia set up the last three lines of the poem. She arranged them in a way that shows how time is running out and that sooner or later her father would be sent to the gas chamber and eventually die. Of course there is not such thing I can compare to her experience but the immense love for her father reminds me of something I have. It gets me teary when I think of how I would feel if that happens to me, first they take my mother away and then after all I’ve suffered, they want to take my dad as well! I wouldn’t be able to take such pain. Her experience makes me think ‘I’m so lucky!’. I have all my family at home, we are not being threatened and we are free, free to live and die when our time comes.