[Cz-L] Yom HaShoah

 A poem by Immanuel Weissglas (1920, Czernowitz - 1979, Bucharest),
who survived the Obodovka camp in Transnistria:

BABYLONISCHE KLAGE

Wir saßen an den Wassern Babels,
An den Wassern des Bugs und klagten,
Vor tausend und tausend, vor zwanzig Jahren,
Und wühlten Geschichte
Aus Wasser und Wind.

Messopotamisch glühte Alexanders Antlitz.
Auf Cäsars Schädel spiegelte sich Ewigkeit.
Napoleons Dreispitz schwenkte durch die Zeit.
Fern dem tosenden Getriebe,
im Wald der Erinnerungen,
Saßen wir auf dem Baumstumpf der Liebe
Und hielten uns umschlungen,
Im Gras, im Gas.

Zerschlage, Totenkopf, die höllenselige Flasche –
Steppenwind und Auschwitzasche.

English translation:

BABYLONIAN LAMENT

We sat by the waters of Babylon,
By the waters of Bug and complained,
A thousand and a thousand, and twenty years ago,
And quarried history
Out of water and wind.

Alexander’s face glowed in Messopotamian.
Eternity was reflected on Caesar's skull.
Napoleon's cocked hat waved through time.
Far from the roaring hustle,
In the forest of memories
We sat on the stump of love
And stayed embraced,
In the grass, in gas.

Squish, skull, the hellblessed flask -
Steppe wind and Auschwitz ashes.

Books by Immanuel Weissglas:
Gottes Mühlen in Berlin. Gedichte. Bukarest, 1947.
Kariera am Bug. Gedichte. Bukarest: Cartea Romaneasca, 1947.
Der Nobiskrug, Gedichte. Bukarest: Kriterion-Verlag, 1972.
Aschenzeit, gesammelte Gedichte. Aachen: Rimbaud, 1994. (Texte aus der
Bukowina, 2).
Der Nobiskrug, Gedichte. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2011.
Die Wiederbegegnung mit mir selber. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag, 2012.
(Bukowiner Literaturlandschaft, Bd. 59).

About Immanuel Weissglas:
Andrei Corbea-Hoisie (Hg.). Immanuel Weißglas (1920 - 1979): Studien
zum Leben und Werk. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre, 2010.

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