Zvi Shua
Auschwitz Kaddish
Glorified and sanctified the dear one wherever he is
And our dearest holy ones who were taken before their time
By men born of woman –
Germans and their helpers, carrying out Hitler’s word
Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted are the names of those holy ones
Who were humiliated and tortured and shot and killed by various types of
Strange deaths, and were slaughtered and led to slaughter in the death wagons
And suffocated in the gas chambers, and burnt while still alive
And after their death.
Great and tremendous was the annihilation in the sites of blood
And I did not clean – I did not clean their blood! And say Amen
And even if their names had not been deleted from the book of human existence
And they were not able to be buried in a Jewish grave
Man is allowed a memory over and above the barriers of time.
Because we made a vow: To remember everything
To remember and never to forget!
Praise and consolation the people of Israel in its allies
And may they be bound in everlasting life in the State of Israel
Because eternity in Israel will never be false and say Amen
May there be peace in the heavens
For us and for all of Israel and say Amen!
Blessed and sanctified is the truth of man.