The train
Like 1 Pin it 0When I sit on the train
I recall the journey to hell
Arranged by the Nazi
"Enjoy your journey"
Is not possible
After the train ride to the camp
Which saw my family killed
By the Nazi
Train ride
Tunnel
Cramped
Pushed
Kicked
Forced
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The first mass deportation of Jews from Nazi Germany occurred in less than a year before the outbreak of war. It was the forcible eviction of German Jews with Polish citizenship fuelled by the Kristallnacht. Approximately 30,000 Jews were rounded up and sent via rail to refugee camps. In July 1938 both the United States and Britain at the Évian Conference in France refused to accept any more Jewish immigrants.
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I cannot sit on a train
Without thinking of hell
My number on my arm
My mother gone
My brother gassed
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The first trains with German Jews expelled to ghettos in occupied Poland began departing from central Germany on 16 October 1941. Subsequently, called Sonderzüge (special trains),the trains had low priority for the movement and would proceed to the mainline only after all other transports went through, inevitably extending shipping time beyond expectations.
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Rolling
Towards death
I cannot
Forget
The train
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Learnt a lot from this write...Very sad but I'm glad I read it...Well done Jai
Thank you Rose to have you read my poem
is my good fortune; a poem is not born until it is read and understood;
best wishes Jai:) ?
My Dear Brother Poet Jai,
Your poem moved me to tears. I too wrote a few poems on the Holocaust, one of them, titled "Six Million" Cosmo put on Facebook and it was read by over 4,000 people. I have studied this horrible travesty in history, since I was a teenager. My first wife's parents, both lost most of their families due to this tragedy, but were luckily able to escape to Palestine, and from there make their way to the U.S.. Thank you for your powerful work, because it is so important that we all make sure the world never forgets.
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I refused then to believe, that which many had there said
If we don't get out our country, too soon, we'll all be dead
So I chose to stay in my birthplace, where for hundreds of long years
My race, the Jewish people, had lived without those fears
.
But as I look back now in anger, of what there then transpired
I think of my innocent people, and their deadly funeral pyres
I was part of the very lucky ones, who malnourished, somehow survived
Because God had made some plans for me, to keep The Holocaust alive
.
Now as a man who's had a full life, of ninety plus years old
I represent the living proof, of these horrors need be told
But I think that my true mission, soon will be all through
So to all my family that I lost there, I'll soon be rejoining you
.
Peace and Love,
Larry xxx
The ghosts of forevermore
I'm deeply sorry for your and your wife's suffering as for so many others
This period of history is a black stain of humanity
And what makes the Holocaust different is the orchestrated attempt to annihilate the Jewish people but ultimately the German Nazis failed
They failed miserably and thoroughly
I was reading your words that you left on the page in bold and how courageous these words are - how courageous and beautifully crafted with the poignant message
lest we forget
Thank you &
shalom
from Jai:) ?
My Dear Friend Jai,
Again, you have made such poignant points, like the attempted annihilation of the Jewish race, by Hitler and his band of monsters. Unfortunately, I do not believe that Hitler committed suicide in that bunker with Eva Braun. I think the bodies they found were of two others, and they had a well planned escape route, which they took. I have watched several Documentaries, that I feel, have proven it. Like the monster Dr. Mengele who was never caught, I think with several other high ranking Natzi officers, they lived a nice long life in South America, many of whom were secreted away by Juan Peron. But at least Israel captured Adolf Eichmann and hung the S.O.B.
Thank you again. Shalom.
Larry xxx