William Heyen, “The Trains” (966)SUMMARIZE AND PARAPHRAZE THE POEM FOLLOWING THE EXMPLE BELOW(VERY IMPORTANT)!

The Trains

William Heyen

Signed by Franz Paul Stangl , Commandant

there is in Berlin a document

an of transmittal from Treblinka

248 freight cars of clothing

400 ,000 gold watches

25 freight cars of women 's hair

Some clothing was kept , some was pulped for

The finest watches were never melted down

All the women 's hair was used for mattresses , or dolls

Would these words like to use some of that same

One of those watches may pulse in your own wrist

Does someone you know

collect dolls , or sleep on human hair

He is dead at last , Commandant Stangl of Treblinka

but the camp 's three syllables still sound like freight cars

straining around a curve , Treblinka

Treblinka . Clothing , time in gold watches

women 's hair for mattresses and dolls ' heads

Treblinka . The trains from Treblinka

Paraphrase

Franz Paul Stangl , Commandant of Hitler 's army in Berlin , sent out an to those in charge of Trelbinka that any items from the Jews in the camp be shipped back to Berlin for use by the Germans

Summary

Trelbinka was a Holocaust prisoner 's camp that was eventually closed The Commandant in Berlin ed that the items there , taken from prisoners , be shipped back to the command post for use by the Germans The shipment was put into 248 freight cars and included clothing 400 ,000 gold watches and women 's hair . The clothing that was useful was kept while that which did not meet the German 's standards was used to make . The watches were melted down for their gold content and the hair of the women prisoners used to stuff mattresses or make dolls for little German girls . Do the Germans use the made of the Jews clothes to write on ? Do they wear the watches ? Did they give a doll made of Jewish hair to someone they know or sleep on a mattress made from it Commandant Stangl is gone but the name of the camp , Treblinka , lives on in the memory of the sound of the train cars carrying away the items of the Jews . Treblinka stands for the prisoners ' clothing and watches and the women 's hair...