by Gila Manusovich-Shamir
Translated by Eli and Gila Shamir, July 2012
As present memories fade right away
Like dew absorbed in dry soils
The hard core of past events does stay
Stories of Holocaust and war spoils
While minutes away are fog covered
Distant past comes fresh and alive,
Far away events are clearly restored,
Rendering meaning to my father's life
Devotedly we preserve human dignity
Of the few remaining survivors
Give homage to those keeping testimony
On distant dark years of horrors
Seventy years to Kremenets' massacre
In the green nature, flowering summer
Houses, streams, hills and forests
Silently watched our families last moments
To the memory of the victims we pray together
The town, the villages, our families--
We shall remember them forever
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