Berlin 1932 Women 
"Berlin 1932"
First they came for the gypsies and was
happy, because stealing.
Then they came for the Jews
and I said nothing because I was being disagreeable.
Then they came for the homosexuals,
and I was relieved, because I had annoying.
Then they came for the Communists,
and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
One day they came for me,
and there was nobody left to protest.
(B. Brecht)
Today marks a sad anniversary that we all are going to remember and talk about it right not to forget.
For decades, we remember the Shoah, or the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate all Jews, but in our history books and information generally fails another terrible genocide.
Maybe not talked about specifically because then you risk to find out that nothing has changed and, to a lesser extent becomes circular. I speak of
Porrajmos, the "great devouring", the extermination of the Gypsies.
I'm talking about five hundred thousand Roma and Sinti people killed, devoured by the Nazi savagery.
An impressive number of people, and who knows how many others surveyed, which are not remembered.
The Roma, like Jews, have always been a persecuted people over time. There is a pair of red shoes
twenty-four nearly new number:
can still be seen on the inner sole brand of factory
"Schulze Monaco."
There is a pair of red shoes
atop a pile of shoes to children
Buckenwald
were a child of three and a half years
who knows what color his eyes were burned in ovens
but his cry the
can imagine you know how the children weep
even his feet can imagine them
shoe number twenty-four
for 'eternity
because the legs of the dead children do not grow.
There is a pair of red shoes to
Buckenwald
almost new because the feet of the dead children do not consume
soles.
Joyce Lussier
