There's no tomorrow for us
BISLA STUDY TRIP TO KRAKOW
Neighbors
Manfred Moritz, Alica, and Elizabeta Rubner lived on Grosslingova 55, on the second floor of the apartment building neighboring with BISLA.
All perished in the gas chamber of Auschwitz
Farewell, my Krakow!
Fare thee well,
The cart is hitched up,
Waiting in front of my house.
The savage enemy drives me cruelly from you
As one would drive away a dog.
Farewell, my Krakow!
Perhaps today is the last day
I will ever see everything dear to me.
At my mother's grave,
I cried out my heart.
It was hard to partfrom her.
I cried my eyes out, until the last tear
Wetted my father's cold stone.
I couldn't find my grandfather's grave.
His gravestone must have turned to dust by now.
Farewell, my Krakow!
Holy is your ground.
My parents rest in it.
I am not destined to lie next to them;
A grave awaits me somewhere far away
Farewell, my Krakow!
Fare thee well!
The cart is hitched up.
Waiting in front of my house
The savage enemy drives me away from you,
cruelly,
As one would drive away a dog.
Mordechai Gebirtig (transl. Manfred Lemm)
