Between the Sola and the crammed swamps, guard chains, barbed wire Lies Concentration Camp, the cursed nest That inmates hate like an plague.
there is malaria, typhus and other things Where great eats at your heart, thousands upon thousands are imprisoned Far from homeland, far from wife and child.
You see rows of buildings rise built by Through storm and rain you have to carry bricks and Block after block springs up, for of men All of for those who are yet to come.
Sadly you see columns you by You can see fathers, brothers there You aren't allowed to say hello, will mean their death To do so you involuntarily their woe.
Sadly you see the columns by The commands on the left, two three You have no to say anything here. When you often to scream for help.
with lice and fleas, fever rages, Many thousands have already miserably, Indeed you are tormented night and day And every step is watched by guards.
Father, mother are you by now? No one suspects our you are only allowed to dream of a home From where fate shamelessly you out.
I never see you again, my country And like so thousands go up the chimney, Hail, my family and friends there of me from time to time, who was forced to leave.
Written by a Slovakian girl in Auschwitz Camp In from the first transports.