March 21, 2014

"What is the Truth?" (Chelmno - 1941-1945) Holocaust Series

 There are no photos which can express the memories within - c

“What is the Truth?”
(Chelmno 1941-1945)

cji
3/21/14

(Prelude:

What drives men insanely
lusting to kill or destroy
perfecting and bragging
efficiency was the goal
called Germanizaton
better to be death zone
without mercy or concern
mattering not of the who
multiple nationalities there
Soviets, Poles, Hungarians
Bohemian, Moravians, Austrians
some from Germany and more
those from Luxemburg as well
yet mostly it was the Jews
yet mostly it was the Jews!

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“What is the Truth – 1?”

cji
3/21/14

Revisionist history lying
creating an illusion of hate
changing what is desired
forcing one to learn in lies
negating the pain and sorrow
unless someone can gain
peddling their brand of lies
to further corrections
exacting retribution false
while somewhere is truth
the Holocaust did happen
innocent lives were ruined
a culture almost destroyed
millions lost their lives
in the insanity called hate
wherein power is absolute
it happened at Chelmno
it can happen again here
some places already has
as the politically unfeeling
ignoring what is the truth
hoping others do so too
so it can happen again!

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“Perfection”

cji
3/21/14

Without rails provided
carried by lorries away
dumped all belongings
then into the showers
naked without any pride
put in the back of vans
thinking moving again
yet instead gassed
then to mass graves
till a stench air filled
unburied and torched
reburied – refined
killing perfection
92,000 in six months
only to increase
till closed in 1943
reopened in 1944
then closed 1945
its work of death
perfection found
in memory bound!

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“340,000 or More”

cji
3/21/14

True numbers unreported
cover-ups and denials made
as much history has been
while families annihilated
towns and villages reduced
so many lost to their race
but mostly all lost to hate
violence of the worst kind
controlled by government
power to destroy many
in denials of conquest!

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“Fresh Air Lost”

cji
3/21/14

Clear country air to breathe
somehow losing its savor
slowly being replaced vile
soon only the air of death
filling every person found
none could avoid or hide
none could longer deny
death was taking place
bodies decomposing each
escaping their burial pit
in the only way they could
till fresh air lost to all
having lost its savor
vile country air to breathe!

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“Not Just Any Camp”

cji
3/21/14

Camps found throughout
Poland, Germany and more
where a final solution to be
called the Holocaust today
history being written then
keeping notes and dates
counting corpses each one
innocent children – parents
grandparents, aunts/uncles
brothers and sisters known
not just any Camp was this
but one found just to murder
seeking a final solution
followed in other Camps!

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“Seven Escaped”

cji
3/21/14

Hundreds of thousand
sent to the Chelmno Camp
well-guarded and isolated
striped and naked their
rape – pillage – murder
only three escaped
one day to testify
proclaiming the guilt
telling the story told
of those in Chelmno
hundreds of thousands!

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“Destroying Evidence”

cji
3/21/14

Bringing in more prisoners
political and POW’s too
digging up the graves all
pulverizing the remains
filling sacks upon sacks
taken to the river Warta*
over and over trips made
at first mallets on concrete
then using a Knochenmuhle
speeding up the hiding phase
soon closing the camp
executing the forced labor
still the evidence remained
the eternal small of death
and witnesses escaped
attempting to beguile all
sadly a memory unable
to be destroyed then
still alive even today
while attempted twice
further ingraining horror!

*Warta – or Ner River)

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“Sonderkmmando”

cji
3/21/14

Forcing the young to destroy
prisoners soon too to die
forced to aid in the Camps
so many different names
the same at Chelmno Camp
made to destroy bodies
while none able to revolt
(as others did in places*)
still punished as the same
one in three killed as lesson
till in the end most all died
forced in this work of death!

(*Auschwitz/Treblinka)

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“What is the Truth- 2?”

cji
3/21/14

What is being rewritten today
beguiling other generations
as much of history despised
some or much for greedy gain
others for power blocks of hate
changing and simply wiling
for the many to be forgetful
thus political correctness
changing what happened
not asking what is the truth
only deciding this should be
while the Holocaust real
denial unacceptable to be
so many atrocities then
easily being repeated now
as so many care not today
what is the truth of history!

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(Epilogue:

Unable to continue on
too many nightmares
too many thoughts found
my memories bound
Camp to Camp to Camp
years taken to record
some so long ago today
each time the journey
painful – devastating
seeing the children
men and women
abused and destroyed
as at Chelmno found
in my memory bound
nightmares conflicting
endlessly to continue!)


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