Pile of Shoes
There in Auschwitz
In those pile of shoes
It could have been me.
Only Three
But instead...
Siberia. Iran. Israel.
We ran.
My brave mother
She dyed her hair blonde
My brave father
He lost his right hand
We ran, we ran, we ran.
Cold. Hunger. Malaria. War.
1991
I went back to visit.
There in Auschwitz
In those pile of shoes
It could have been me.
Only Three
Miriam Tasini was three years old when her family escaped Nazi persecution and found a new life in Israel after the war. It's been many years and she's never experienced the concentration camps herself, but Miriam will never forget the stories she heard as a child of the horrid camp experiences fellow survivors of the Holocaust told.
For the first time since the war ended, she went back to Poland and visited Auschwitz in 1991 where she saw a pile of children's shoes. And she said to us, "that could have been me."
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