Good Holocaust (preferably Auschwitz/Krakow related) poetry?

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Good Holocaust (preferably Auschwitz/Krakow related) poetry? Need some text to go along with some documentary pieces, been trawling through stuff for hours and only managed to find two with the sort of 'vibe' I'm going for (will post below). Pic mostly unrelated.

Cheers.

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Auschwitz

The semiquaver chugging of the train on the track
And the people on board who will never go back
And the terror in the eyes of all the young ones to go
With no one knowing as the train comes to slow

Those men at the station as the ramps drop down
Where humanity lost is the only crippled sound
Hope gone for those who stand behind the hard sharp wire
And the smoke in the towers rises just a little higher

And the blue ink stabs a little harder in the skin
Above the veins of despair where murder let it in
And the terror in the eyes of all those about to leave
Another train on the track no last minute reprieve

And the slow, cro...chet chugging of the train on the track;
And the people on board. Who will ne...ver go.

Back.

By Charles N Whittaker

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Arbeit macht frei

On the cold stone, lies another stone
In this forgotten fortress of sins still unatoned
Where many have died in groups yet still alone
Left by their societies, they were on their own
They've never seen a morning as beautiful as when
They queued on the snow (like every now and then)
I wonder if they knew that this morning was their last?
That gas would take their future, erasing all their past?
Did they hear the God, when they drew their last breath?
Were their troubled souls, purified by death?
Did they rise above the camp, the sorrow and the pain?
Or did their life extinguish, like a fire in the rain?
I wonder how many have crossed this accursed gate?
How many have experienced such cruelty and hate?
How many had the strength to look up at the sign?
Work makes you free - "Arbeit macht frei"

Grzegorz Chmielewski