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What Else Was Lost?
By Sonia Schreiber Weitz
Copyright © 1986
ONE AND A HALF MILLION
JEWISH CHILDREN
AND THEIR CHILDREN’S
CHILDREN…..
UNTHINKABLE NUMBERS
BUT WHAT HURTS THE MOST
IS THE HAUNTING THOUGHT
OF WHAT ELSE WAS LOST
AND HOW DO WE EVER
BEGIN TO MOURN
THE GENERATIONS
NEVER TO BE BORN.
A LEADER, A HERO,
AN HEIR TO A NATION
A BUILDER. AN ARTIST.
A HEALER. A CLOWN.
THE CURES UNDISCOVERED
THE MUSIC UNWRITTEN
ALL THE DREAMS UNDREAMT
OR SHATTERED…OR BROKEN…
UNIMAGINED TREASURE
THE LOSSES UNMEASURED
UNWEPT FOR
UNSPOKEN.