meticulous in your persecution
Down to the last dime
Murder of millions
In so little time 

You bested me
Robbed me left me cold
Took all my possessions
Figured I’d die young never get old

But you figured wrong
Bet your bottom dollor you sure did
Almost starved to death
Survived even a shot to my head 

The Americans oh the Americans 
How they were so strong
But even the Americans
The atrocities got to them before very long

The corpses were stacked 
One upon the other 
Outside the gas chambers 
No one needed to ponder 

So here I lie 
75 years has gone by
Made it to the ripe 
Old age of 85

Yes 10 years old I was
When the nazies knocked down our door
Shot my father in the head
Knocked my mother to the floor 

Drug mama out by the hair on her head
Behind her I was kicked and pushed
And silently cried as I bled

I was lucky because children
Normally would roast
But the commandant liked me
As I was used to fix his own children’s toast

But I didn’t stay on the good side
For very long
The Nazi’s shot me in the head 
Pushed me in a pit saying that’s where I belonged 

And then the Americans came
My saviors indeed
A young private saw me moving
he dropped to his knees 

He cried as he lifted me 
Out of that pit
Got me to a Red Cross ambulance
and that’s how I managed to survive and lived

I don’t know what happened 
To the American GI
But I’ll never forget him
My American hero- my savior forever in my eyes 

WB KSG