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This is the Way Zamość Was Cut Down….

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Ani Hagever, I am the man,
Who looked on
Who saw –

How my children,
My women,
My young and old people

Were thrown into wagons,
Flung in there like rocks,
Like wood chips,
And beat them without mercy and spoke to them obscenely.


I looked out through the window pane, saw the beaters –
I contemplated the beaters and contemplated those who were being beaten –
I wrung my hands… a disgrace and a farce,
The Jews, oh, with the Jews – my Jews have been murdered!

Woe is me, there is no one left anymore…
There was a people, they were, but are no longer…
There was a people,
And they existed, and now…
No more!

(From Yitzhak Katzenellenson's: ‘The Song of the Murdered Jewish People’)

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As a Symbolic Gravestone for their Murdered Families

The following landsleit have separately contributed a special amount:

From Buenos Aires :

Sarah Miltz de Eisenberg   Hirsch Zimlich
Shlomo Goldzweig   Hirsch Elbaum
Moshe Wiedler   Wolf Kornmass
Yitzhak Schwartz
Israel Zilber (New York, USA)   Pinia Weintraub (La Paz, Bolivia)
Faiga Orenbaum da Shklau (Rio de Janeiro)   Menashe Appelzweig (La Paz, Bolivia)

The picture on the reverse side is a reproduction from the artist B. Linke (Poland), the artist called it ‘El Moleh Rakhamim.’ The eternal light candles are added by the artist Granat.

 

 

Yekhezkiel Shlack covered the expenses for the reproduction, as a symbolic gravestone in memory of his murdered family

 

Note: A miniature black & white reproduction of this artistic work appears above.

 

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