Theresienstadt Burial Scene Poem by Sheena Blackhall
Theresienstadt Burial Scene
I am Karel, aged 9
See! I have drawn a skull and crossbones
This isn’t a pirate picture
The bones are real
Nothing here is pretend
Where I live
Coffins are common as doors
No happy songs,
Only the chants for the dead
Fear, filth, grief
Are my close companions
It’s hard, being a child
Where hunger gnaws you lean
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
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Theresienstadt Burial Scene
Inspired by Drawing 15: Burial Scene (at Terezin 1941, aged 9) Karel Sattler, born 16/11/1932. Died in the camps
Inspired by Drawing 15: Burial Scene (at Terezin 1941, aged 9) Karel Sattler, born 16/11/1932. Died in the camps
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