A Warning From History Poem by David Clinch
A Warning From History
Look at you, looking at me
Out of the darkness
Unknown, alone, unfree
I am a warning
I am a warning from history
Look at me, I look like a boy - they said
Left side, right side, and ahead
The girl next door I will not be
I am a warning
I am a warning from history
The girl next door says I don't ‘fit in'
Sees my friend, ‘she looks like a Jew'
(It's my sexuality too)
Signs a letter, denouncing me
I am a warning
I am a warning from history
I welcome Jews and all nationalities
I despise your Nuremberg laws
I know the death camp waits for me
I am a warning
I am a warning from history
I look at you, now look at me
Out of the darkness
Unknown, alone, unfree
I am a warning
I am a warning from history
Ilse Sonja Totzke under Gestapo interrogation, early 1942
I wrote this song to honour the memory of Ilse Sonja Totzke. I'd seen a piece about her in the programme The Nazis - A Warning from History. I had been been wanting to write something for several years.
Her name is on the Roll of Honour for Gentiles who helped Jews at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. I visited this memorial on a visit to Palestine in February 2008.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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