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ОглавлениеDora Posluns
In front of our eyes they went to the gas chambers
Our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, our sisters
Together with the small children
In front of our eyes they went to the crematoria
They left us behind to testify as witnesses
Their eyes alone spoke in the silence
Their silence, trembling, the last cry from their speaking eyes shrieked
Remember us!
You survivors don’t forget us
G-d did not send us to the gas chambers
A human being like you, like me
The unbelievers who deny the Holocaust
Say it couldn’t have happened, it didn’t happen
We the survivors are the last living witnesses
In front of our eyes, they were taken to the crematoria
The last silent scream in their eyes to us
Write!
Write our names as a witness
You child of a survivor, to the second generation
You child of a survivor, to the third generation
Write our names as a witness
Until the end of all generations
It’s unbelievable … can a human being imagine Auschwitz?
You must write!
Let us write, brothers, in a new Machzor,1 a new Siddur2
While their ashes are dispersed on the walkways
In all our prayers, let us mention them
In all our memorial services, let us mourn them
In all our Kaddish3 prayers, let us recognize them
May they lend beauty to each “Hatikvah”4 that we sing
The death of millions of martyrs is the stuff of legends
Remember not to forget
Never again
Remember us
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1The prayer book that Jewish people use on the High Holidays.
2Jewish prayer book.
3Jewish mourners’ prayer.
4“Hatikvah” (“The Hope”) is Israel’s national anthem.
