Juliska Revesz (Julia)
Julia was born in February
To a Jewish mother in Hungary
In the University city of Pécs*
The black white photo shows
A baby in her swaddling clothes.
Nineteen forty four was the year
She entered a world convulsed
With hatred and with war
Little could she know of the road
That brought her to the camp in Auschwitz.
Only five months old she was consumed
By the flames of the killing chambers
Never to see the city
With its Roman buildings and history
A death after life in misery.
The evil of Auschwitz remains
The trauma is a reminder
What men will do to men
When humanity is surrendered
On the altar of populist nationalism.
The camps were freed and were cleared
Now open to the overseas tourist
A monument to madness and insanity
A lesson that evil will flourish
If good men sit around doing nothing.
- Pronounced ‘page’.
