Holocaust

He shows no mercy.
He gives no respect.
He is feared above all.
He knows nothing of kindness.
He chooses everyone’s fate.
Who is he?
He is the camp Kommandant.

It is the sound of screaming children.
It is the feeling of fear and torture.
It is the taste of ashes in the air and thin soup.
It is the smell of rotting corpses.
It is the sight of death around every corner.
What is it?
It is a concentration camp.

We are the emaciated bodies that were worked like dogs to the death.
We are the parents looking for their lost children.
We are the Jews, mentally ill, Gypsies, and other people considered “inferior.”
We are the children taken from our families in the middle of the night.
We are the orphans of the war.
Who are we?
We are the victims of the Holocaust.