
Youths in Eisenhuettenstadt near the Polish border.

What will I tell my children? What can I tell them about their father's
home and about this symbol that,
60 years after its defeat, keeps appearing
all around us?

The remnants of the Reichskanzlei and Hitler's bunker are a stone-throw
from where Germany
finally has built the memorial for the Murdered
Jews of Europe.

My son walked through the grass and the flowers, at Theresienstadt.
He took some pebbles
and let them slide toward him across the Star
of David. Can this be a new beginning?

On these tracks millions arrived and during the
selections children were
taken from their parents.