Friday, July 3, 2009

International Memorial

The Memorial of Auschwitz-Birkenau had 20 commemorative flagstones in 20 different languages including tablets inscribed in English, Slovenian, Belorussian, Czech, German, French, Greek, Hebrew, Croatian, Italian, Yiddish, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Roma. The inscription reads:

For ever let this place be
A cry of Despair
And a warning to humanity
About one and a half million
Men, women, and children,
Mainly Jews
From various counties
Of Europe
Auschwitz-Birkenau
1940-1945