Yam HaShoah

Yom HaShoah
(Holocaust Remembrance Day)

Sirens will ring in Israel
Small moment in time
To remember six million slaughtered

Has the world forgotten?
Is our memory so short?
Is history not taught?

The evil of antisemitism
Is raising its ugly head
Even in America
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Wolf Avatar
April 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
You are correct, and I thank you, Oliver. Imagine 3+ years of October 7's. Really, nothing compares to the stench of those mounds of skeletal bodies gassed to death -- waiting to be cremated. ~ gw
Mckeithan Avatar
April 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
You are welcome Gershon. I had to block a poet on this site who took issue with me writing this and said some fairly vile anti-semitic things. When I blocked this person their comments were taken off. Thanks for reading. I have read the accounts of the GI's who opened up the camps. They were applalled and sickened.
Rodrigues Avatar
April 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Forgotten, not taught, not cared about…it’s crazy!!!!
Mckeithan Avatar
April 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It is Kim
Greenhough Avatar
April 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Blessings to the Jews for all they endure, and for this poem of awareness I have seen the pictures. I can never forget.
Mckeithan Avatar
April 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Thank you Hilda. We must never forget
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