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"Terezín."

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"At first, the ashes were placed
in a wooden box, later paper.

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Always a name on the box.

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Always notations in the log.

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How much oil used, temperature
and duration of the fire,

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name of the shift
workers, cause of death.

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Four ovens.

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Five bodies burned at one time.

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20 bodies, each 20 minutes.

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Not a death camp, just
a town for concentrating

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people who were hated.

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Sufficient disease, torture,
bullets, the prisoners

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hoisted pulley and
wench all night long.

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Sorting collective ash
into separate piles,

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assigning one of five names.

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15,000 children, a life of
lists, nothing ever complete,

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passed through Terezín.

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100 survived.

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The children attended
secret school in the attics.

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Three or six months, one or two
years, depending on their luck.

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They studied literature and
scripture, performed operas

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and plays, edited a journal,
while the transports arrived

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and departed continually.

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Near the end, covering
tracks, the Nazis

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made a chain of children, the
lucky ones who'd survived,

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spanning from the
crematorium to the river.

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One night, 22,000 urns
were emptied into the flow.

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The pasty sludge
dispersing, raining down

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over carp and crayfish, settling
onto the silt where it remains.

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What hasn't floated downstream
with crumbs of bone too light

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to sink.

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How many rivers
carry such a burden?

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Their music, the
Psalm, my sorrow

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is continually before me.

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Mother cherish your child.

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I am a leaf ripe for falling.

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See how I cower here shivering.

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I am so cold."

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