A Very Personal Holocaust
On leaving the station all the records
suggest
She was wearing her Paisley patterned
Sunday best dress ..
Not to mention the very fine shawl
embroidered in gold
by an old aunt, with a silver bradawl ..
But let’s not pretend, that was a whole
life time ago ..
Take my word, how things change in
the blink of an eye ..
For later that day, those same records
Proposed
Miss Lonneke Cohen was to lose all she
then owned ..
Her hair and those ribbons and the gold
from her teeth ..
Plus a coat and her red leather boots
were removed by a thief
And swiftly replaced with a yellow star
shaped cotton motif ..
Not to mention that six figure tattoo ..
Yes, the one the
now, Ms. Lonneke Wahl still wears to
this day …
On her forearm, beneath the long sleeves
of her blouse
She keeps hidden away .. and as far as
is known ……………………………. She is now
the only surviving family member
Of the late Marsha and Abraham Cohen …