Tuesday, 26 January 2021

FOR US TO REMEMBER ON HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY 2021

 THE HARPS OF BIRKENAU

          (a fragment)


..wheels speed along the track

rushing toward the victory of crime,

transporting, transporting, people to gas,

people to a cremator, people to a petrol-sprayed pyre.

Smoke floats, thick foul smoke…

People burn people here.


And on luminous poles

stretch wires shine.

These are the harps of Brzezinka,

harps of Birkenau


Berkenau 1944


Sofia Grochowalska-Abramovich

               1902-1998

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