| (Reposted to this site 8/9/2006 )
Roundup of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto (1943) |
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TO THE LITTLE
POLISH BOY
STANDING WITH HIS ARMS UP |
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would like to be an artist So I could make a Painting of you Little Polish Boy Standing with your Little
hat I would make a monument of you and the world who said nothing I would like to be a composer Standing with your Little
hat I would write a concerto of you and the world who said nothing |
I
am not an artist But my mind had painted a painting of you Ten Million Miles High is
the Painting Standing with your Little
hat And the World who said nothing I'll make this painting so
bright Ten billion miles high will
be the monument Standing with your Little
hat |
Standing
in the ghetto with your arms up as many Nazi machine guns pointing at you And the monument will tremble
so the blind world The world I am not a composer The world's I |
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"Poem from the Archives
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, California" |
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