Frank Families
(haiku)
They tried daylight ways
We wouldn’t let them go; we
Made them hide ’til found
C L Couch
image in the public domain
news story, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/anne-frank-s-family-tried-escape-u-s-hit-immigration-n889251
Frank Families
(haiku)
They tried daylight ways
We wouldn’t let them go; we
Made them hide ’til found
C L Couch
image in the public domain
news story, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/anne-frank-s-family-tried-escape-u-s-hit-immigration-n889251
Who Mourns for Half a Million
(Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Greed waits them out
Holocaust survivors, remnant
Of genocide
A gift of ghosts to generations
They die in need
Imprisoned yet in holding cells
Of systems
That will not return
Them to earthly life
In receiving of their own
the forty-seven nations signing the Terezin Declaration (2009) are Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay
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