To the living, I am gone.
To the sorrowful, I will never return.
Little Girls Lost
Only months before the liberation of Paris, France
sisters Denise and Micheline Levy and their family
were among the last Jews deported to Auschwitz in 1944,
after hiding in Geneaux, near Dijon, for most of the war.
To the angry, I was cheated,
But to the happy, I am at peace,
And to the faithful, I have never left.
I cannot speak, but I can listen.
I cannot be seen, but I can be heard.
So as you stand upon a shore gazing at a beautiful sea,
As you look upon a flower and admire its simplicity,
Remember me.
Remember me in your heart:
Your thoughts, and your memories,
Of the times we loved,
The times we cried,
The times we fought,
The times we laughed.
For if you always think of me,
I will never have gone.
The Levy sisters dolls which were left lying in the street after they
were arrested by the gendarmes in Gemeaux, France in 1944.
A village shopkeeper found the dolls and kept them, perhaps hoping
to be able to return them to the little girls if they one day returned
to claim them. Unfortunately, the children never came back.
The dolls were carefully preserved by three generations of the shopkeeper's family
until 2016, when a French schoolteacher, Frederique Gilles, whose grandmother
had passed the dolls down to her, decided to present them to
the Shoah Memorial Museum in Paris.
"Remember Me"
A poem by Margaret Mead
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