Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

Pinchas Gutter

Pinchas lives in the museum
Where I volunteer.
His hologram is what I mean
That helps him to appear.

A Holocaust survivor
Born in 1932,
His family shared the fate expected
By each Polish Jew.

But Pinchas lived and always will;
Technology ensures it
And interactive software
By a research team secures it.

Nine hundred questions he was asked,
With cameras recording,
Resulting in a project
Both amazing and rewarding.

For visitors can thus “converse”
And Pinchas tells his story,
Reality more powerful
Than myth or allegory.

Pinchas is a teaching tool
But feels more like a friend
And by his presence we can learn
That hope may yet transcend.

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Gershon Wolf January 28, 2019 at 10:30 PM Instant FAVE! Bravo, Ilene. Thanks for preserving Pinchas' name in rhyme immemorial! Best wishes, Gershon

Rico Leffanta January 24, 2019 at 2:13 PM As I served in Germany during the 1950s and was engaged to marry a German aristocrat, I encountered all sides of this tragic page in history, which is why I am so anti-Trump! We mustn't let bigots rule! Keep them coming, Ilene! Aloha! Rico

David Byrne January 23, 2019 at 11:27 PM By chance, I spent several hours earlier this week reading about how the Nazis tried and almost succeeded in disposing of the entire population of Poland. It's ironic that Pinchas survives in holographic form.

Carolyn Devonshire January 23, 2019 at 5:37 PM How wonderful that this man (perhaps deceased now) will live to share stories of events from that horrible war. My mother's family was from Poland and they told me Catholics didn't fare much better than Jews in the death camps. Because Pinchas survived and is able to tell us about his time, we must find hope in the fact that he survived. I'll soon be posting a contest on the theme of "Hope" and this story would be a welcome entry. Have a nice evening, Carolyn

Andrea Dietrich January 23, 2019 at 3:22 PM wow,I never heard of this. How amazing it would be to see this. You are so lucky to live in the big apple and have all this stuff available to you! Ilene Bauer January 23, 2019 at 3:32 PM Hey Andrea! You can Google his name and watch him in action...