Nightmares: The Survivor
How many nights must pass before
I need not wake up anymore?
Thomas Ország-Land is a poet and journalist based in Budapest, Jerusalem and London. His last book: Survivors: Hungarian Jewish Poets of the Holocaust (Smokestack, 2014), his last E-chapbook: Reading for Rush Hour: A Pamphlet in Praise of Passion (Snakeskin, 2016).
*2nd August marks the anniversary of the Treblinka uprising in 1943 (hmd.org.uk/content/02081943-uprising-prisoners-treblinka) Jewish-Hungarian poet András Mezei (1930-2008) survived the Holocaust as well as the three-month siege of Budapest.