A Song From Aronico

« The Holocaust »

We meet once again to mourn the Jews that died in the Holocaust.
We repeat the prayers for the families we shall never know.
Many taken from us in the prime of their lives.
What was their Sin?
To die for being "A Jew."
This year I mourn not only for the victims of the Holocaust.
This year I mourn for the relatives who could not be born.
I will never know their names or faces.
This year,
I grieve for the lives that ended without beginning.
I shall not know the children of my aunts and uncles.

Nor of their children that were to be.
The victims of the Holocaust never got to conceive "Family".
They were never able to hold the hands of their children.
They were never able to hear the children Sing, Laugh, or even cry.
They never did, because they never were.
So let me Bow my head before you, Almighty G-d,
Hear our prayers, O Lord.
From the children of Israel,
Let our brethren REST IN PEACE,
And the living,
Never more to know,
"Man's Inhumanity to Man."

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