Grossmutter A Holocaust Heroine Poem by Stephen Hollins

Grandmother a Holocaust heroine
was a prominent classical pianist and composer
with long elegant artistic fingers, a beautiful woman
whose gentleness belied great courage

During her recitals, she assisted some 800 Jews
to evade the clutches of the Nazis
paying for their lives with her own
Gestapo sent her to Ravensbrück
Konzentrationslager für Frauen

With such dignity and grace, she walked
that her bones melted into her clothes 
And gently she was lifted by the breeze...
to a better place