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Terror in Its Wake
1940
Thousands of men, women, children
Taken from their homes
To the Warsaw ghetto.
Ghetto life for 470,000
Hunger and disease,
Humiliation and terror.
1942
Deportation to concentration camps begin,
Desire to resist is born.
April 19, 1943
The 20,000 remaining
Staged an uprising.
The SS burned house after house.
The sea of flames and suffocating smoke laps the city.
The struggle was heroic and tragic.
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Death's Journey
Uniformed guards herded them
Into sealed wagons.
They began their journey
To an unknown destination.
Days and nights,
Thirst and starvation.
Rattling sound of trains,
Whistles sounds of passing trains.
A sudden, final halt. |
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Habitation of Death
Bolted doors opened,
Auschwitz.
The line-up and the sorting.
To the right,
Fit to work,
Tattooed with numbers,
Beated and starved.
To the left,
Unfit to work,
Murdered. |
