The Nazis Put The Jews Inside

The Nazis Put The Jews Inside

The Nazis put the Jews inside

Of cattle cars upon the tracks

To Auschwitz on the final ride

To smoke arisen out of stacks.

It happened there was a delay

(It’s what this story is about)

Some interruption on the way

So all the passengers got out.

The weather was so very cold,

As tired, famished travelers,

Sat altogether, young and old

Beside the empty cattle cars.

It happened that a Jewish lad

Sat down beside an aged Jew;

Both shivering and sadly clad,

As hard to tell them apart too.

The young lad, taking pity on

The shiverer beside him, and,

In seeing what had to be done—

To warm another’s frozen hand

The older urged the younger not

To stop, to keep on rubbing so,

Cold as he was, he warmed a lot

Amidst a night of fallen snow;

Until by morning all they found

Beside those empty cattle cars,

Were lifeless bodies left around,

Except for those two travelers:

One lad and an old man beside

The lifeless (dying of the frost)

The only ones who hadn’t died

One night amid the Holocaust.