Adrian Snell - Fear

Adrian Snell - Fear (Text by Eva Pickova, aged 12 b. 1929 - d. 1943 Auschwitz). From 'Song Of An Exile', recorded at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on the 25th August 1994. Adrian Snell (Keyboards & Vocals), David Fitzgerald (Saxophones, Flutes & Whistles), Caroline Bonnett (Percussion & Vocals), Richard Ayal Frieden (Interpretive Dance & Movement), Dave Bainbridge (Additional Programming & Sequencing).

Fear - Eva Pickova

Today the ghetto knows a different fear.
Close in its grip, death wields an icy scythe.
An evil sickness spreads, a terror in its wake,
The victims of its shadow weep and writhe.

Today a father's heartbeat tells his fright
And mothers bend their heads into their hands.
Now children choke and die with typhus here,
A bitter tax is taken from their hands.

My heart still beats inside my breast
While friends depart for other worlds.
Perhaps it's better - who can say?
Than watching this, to die today.

No, no my God we want to live!
Not watch our numbers melt away.
We want to have a better world.
We want to work - we must not die!

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• Adrian Snell
• David Fitzgerald
• Caroline Bonnett

[Kubus63]

Die zwölfjährige Autorin dieses Gedichts, Eva Pickovà, wurde von Theresienstadt, einem Ghetto ausserhalb Prags, am 18. Dezember 1943 nach Auschwitz transportiert. Dort wurde sie umgebracht.

[gesoline]

Heartbreaking...