After our Zoom with screening of ‘Who Will Write Our History:’

Little boxes in the basement, little boxes filled with documents
Little boxes in the basement, history is underground.
There’s a mother and a grandma, and a father and a bunch of kids,
Getting hungry, angry, fearful, in the ghetto, brutalized.
Jewish people, half a million, penned inside, without human rights.
Deportation, dislocation, starving children, stepped over.
Feed the children, describe every day, document the truth and not the lies.
Forced to work or lives ‘unworthy,’ sent away to Chelmnish death.
Flag of struggle, holding culture, desperate letters, hope is almost lost,
Bunker betrayed, Oyneg Shabbat, three survive, and now we know.
Rachel Auerbach was a hero, stayed and helped feed when she could have run.
Search the rubble, get the boxes, it’s an archive, treasure found.
Like Chopin and like Copernicus, little archive is world heritage.
Write our story, film our ghetto, never let go of our word.