Tough & to the point, Max, & especially relevant the day after
Wiesenthal died.
Doug
On 20-Sep-05, at 10:32 PM, cooee wrote:
> Terezin and my In-Laws
>
> 1.
> My father-in-law Michael calls it
> Theresienstadt.
> It was his last camp.
> A lad, set free in ’45, he had
> nothing and no-one to return to in Romania.
> His wanderings led him at last to Australia.
> Here he made a life, married.
> Four children, four grandchildren.
> Israel he visits, but not Europe.
>
> 2.
> His merchant banker son, Andrew,
> phones him: Dad, guess what?
> Our Prague office, which is in a castle,
> has put us in a limo, we’re on our way
> to Theresienstadt.
>
> 3.
> What they said to each other next,
> I haven’t heard, but I'm brooding on images,
> one easy to see: the limo
> with Andrew the banker, riding high;
> the other, from sixty years back,
> harder to visualise:
> a starved lad who’s seen
> things he’ll never mention,
> with nothing but a number
> tattooed on his arm, and
> a ruined continent to put behind him.
>
>
> Max Richards
> Melbourne
> Wednesday 21 September 2005
>
>
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as apparently it wants to be,
wind on the ocean, trees
moving in wind and rain.
Robert Creeley
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