Remember Forgive Forget

                                 by ęKlaus Stern

Remember when they grabbed us and dragged us to the camps?

And the world stood by in silence and asked us to forgive?

But the S.S. tortured us - never let us forget we are Jews.

And do you remember when we were liberated and we were looking

for our parents, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters?

But they had perished - six millions of them.

And the world told us: forgive and forget.

And do you remember that a new generation grew up in Israel

and they never wanted to forgive their parents for marching

into the gas chambers like a bunch of sheep without resisting?

And we tried to forget.

But then do you remember that voices appeared telling the rest

of the world, that the Holocaust never happened?

And there was nothing to forgive or to forget.

And when the rest of us gathers here in memory of our dear ones,

who perished during the Holocaust, some of us like to remember

Some of us might be ready to forgive

But none of us should ever forget.

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