Two Little Girls Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

(Nazis exterminated six million Jews)

Little dark-haired Jewish girl
Too young to go to school
Striping naked beside her mother
Frightened eyes gazing all around
Seeing women and children undressing
Friends, neighbours from the ghetto.

German soldier, hardened to task
Opens shower doors with a curse
Shouting for women and children to enter.
Pushes weeping girl as she passes him
Slams, bolts door behind her
Oblivious to mother's desperate pleas.

Gas hissing from hidden vents
Terrified mothers holding children
Cradled dying to their bosoms
Trying to hide death from their eyes
Whispering words of love
Victims of Hitler's Final Solution.

Tall blond SS officer in black uniform
Proud husband, father
Supervises burning of bodies
Goes home to his daughter
Same age as dark-haired Jewish girl
Lovingly rocking her to sleep on his knee.