On my people
on the corpses of my people
on the pieces of the corpses of my people
on the chunks of the corpses of my people
on the piles of the chunks of the corpses of my people
on the heaps of the corpses of my people
in Maidanek and Auschwitz
in Birkenau and Treblinka
only green
Grass.“--Translation by Isaac Jack Lévy, used with his permission
Original poem, Attila ecologique, by Henrietta Asseo from AND THE WORLD STOOD SILENT: SEPHARDIC POETRY OF THE HOLOCAUST”