A Holocaust Poem by Atsiylah Atty Garfinkel

</>Imagine if you will, a people condemned to die.
Imagine oppressors, vile and beastly creatures.
Imagine innocent children asking simply 'Why? '

People hiding as soldiers search for each one.
They hide in homes and outdoors, even in waste.
'Children don't make a sound, here they come.'

The mothers are raped as children hide.
The fathers are beaten and shot in the street
The survivors watch as their hope slowly died.

The aggressors are one race and the victims another,
But aren't we all a part of the human race?
Doesn't that make us sisters and brothers?

They capture those they choose and kill the rest.
They convince themselves they are right.
That, when it's done it'll be for the best.

They started with stripping them of their rights
They thought no one'll care about the wretches.
They commit the horrors in broad day light.

Did you see the people too weak to even stand?
Did the world stop and cry out in rage?
Did we care what happened in another land?

You may say 'Hitler's dead, but I feel for those poor,
It was horrible what he did to the Jews.'
But I'm talking about today, with Sudan and Darfur.


Every Yom Ha'Shoah I say 'Never forget. Never again.'
The Holocaust affected my family.
But how can we live silently, during a holocaust?
Don't forget, today! It's happening again!
Where are the allied troops now? Who will rescue Darfur?