RE: [Cz-L] Yom HaShoah

Sorry..only two of my three children were able to attend.
[Stephen Winters]

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From: Winters, Stephen
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 8:18 AM
To: 'iosif vaisman'; czernowitz-L
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Yom HaShoah

My three children participated in the reading of names of those who died in Tranisitria at the Museum of Tolerance in New York yesterday. There were other readers as well. I am told the turnout was small (no more than 20). There were other readers as well. However, even they (ages 25 and 23) felt it was very meaningful.

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From: bounce-80107342-14854854_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-80107342-14854854_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of iosif vaisman
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 12:56 AM
To: czernowitz-L
Subject: [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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