Anny and Auschwitz 1933-1942.

What a lie:

Work will set you free.

They worked

until death

set them free.

Some like you Anny

were tricked

into showers

and gassed.

The same sun and moon

shone on you then

as on me now,

but they shone

on you dying

and so young.

What lies were told,

what a betrayal.

When I look

at the afternoon sun

or the moon at night

I think of you

so long ago,

but I still

think of you though

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

A deeply moving memoir of a tragic time here. In spare but powerful language the speaker addresses in thought a young female named Anny, who was one of the many who were killed by the Nazi regime in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. Her relationship to the speaker is not specified, but evidently it was a close one. There are some losses that are not forgotten.

[Terry Collett]

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