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holókauston

Around that table picture the scene 
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean 
What were the topics on the agenda that day 
The Jewish race is about to pay 

Who gave the right for this decision that's made 
Who has the right to cleanse and degrade 
To decide who lived, to decide who dies 
Another chapter and I still wonder why 

They came in the day they came in the night 
Women and children pulled out of sight 
Herded aboard like cattle and sheep 
Many a family awoke from their sleep 
Dazed and confused as they are taken away 
Where will they be at the end of the day 
From their warm houses and their warm beds 
What must be going through their heads 

As they travel through days and nights
Up ahead they see lots of lights 
Now departing trucks, boarding trains
Their faces scared under this strain 

Asking questions from family and others 
Generations, sisters and brothers 
Why are we here, where are we going 
Windowless carriages with no way of knowing 

We come to a stop, soldiers aplenty 
Towers and wire topped with sentries 
What can this place be they have taken us to 
As we head to large gates as they shuffle us through 

Families separated, herded in file 
Women and children, not one did smile 
Taken to rooms where our heads are shaved 
Is this the way humans behaved 

Clothes discarded as we enter the shower 
No signs of water no signs of power 
Doors slammed as we're all crammed in 
History will recall this evil of sins 

As we stand in the dark chanting our Jewish faith 
We can hear their voices, can't see their faces 
Noises above, when do the showers start 
The event has begun that tells us humans apart 

Questions and sighs, as the walled vents show daylight 
Some thing is falling then their slammed tight 
A strange aroma starts to fill the air 
As all around are screams of despair 

Twenty minutes have passed and the quietness is rife 
Two thousand people, two thousand lives 
Pellets called HCN, Hydrogen Cyanide 
Contribute to this genocide

After the quiet we all have to go 
Dragged and carted by the Sonderkommando 
To be dumped in pits covered by lime 
A race to dispose by it's human slime 

Auschwitz, Buchenwald & Dachau slaughtered 
Many a son, many a daughter 
Experiments on children women and men 
Some aged 90, many under 10 

It's 1945, their end was near, how many alive would reappear 
As Russians, British and US troops 
Chased the Hun to their German roots 
Each camp reached showed it's sordid past 
Where millions of me, in extermination gassed 

In Auschwitz to this present day 
Birds don't fly, no animals play 
The reminder is all for there to see 
Those terrible days what happened to me 

It's 1948, our Nation is born 
From histories past, Jewish populations torn 
To all who survived I wish you well 
And our new born world, called Israel 



The Holocaust written 4/26/2009, entered in JP's contest WAR AND HEROISM
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