Ari Lesser – Holocaust – Yom HaShoah

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Holocaust
Lyrics by Ari Lesser
Six million Jewish lives were lost
Murdered in the Holocaust
And yet online a find there’s folks
Who claim that it’s some kind of hoax
But I know the facts because I’ve met
Eyewitnesses who can’t forget
And I wrote this song so the truth lives on
Long after the last survivor’s gone
Nazi Germany had a fixation
On attaining racial purification
They wanted a white bred Aryan Nation
No place for Jews in their civilization
At first we just faced discrimination
Humiliation and intimidation
But there was a gradual escalation
And soon it was all out segregation
Without any warning or justification
They rounded up the Jewish population
Locked us in ghettos with no sanitation
Where thousands died of disease and starvation
But that was before they began Operation
Reinhard, which called for the liquidation
Of every Jew through mass deportation
To facilities built for extermination
Six million Jewish lives were lost
Murdered in the Holocaust
And yet online a find there’s folks
Who claim that it’s some kind of hoax
But I know the facts because I’ve met
Eyewitnesses who can’t forget
And I wrote this song so the truth lives on
Long after the last survivor’s gone
Directed us to the nearest train station
And sent us from there straight to concentration
Camps, who knew that the situation
Would get much worse at our destination
They lined us up for examination
Those who were fit for an occupation
Worked as slaves with no compensation
And so little food they died of starvation
Others were used for experimentation
Like sterilization through radiation
Receiving unneeded amputations
Transplants, injections, and mutilations
But most went straight to extermination
In gas chambers with no ventilation
The Zyklon-B, upon inhalation
Caused them internal asphyxiation
They clawed at the walls in desperation
But in the end there was no salvation
Thousands a day in the same location
Were gassed and then dragged out for cremation
Six million Jewish lives were lost
Murdered in the Holocaust
And yet online a find there’s folks
Who claim that it’s some kind of hoax
But I know the facts because I’ve met
Eyewitnesses who can’t forget
And I wrote this song so the truth lives on
Long after the last survivor’s gone
When the war reached to its culmination
And the camps were close to emancipation
The SS, in an act of desperation
Ordered a massive evacuation
Marched us from location to location
Through miles of snow on the brink of starvation
Thousands to weak to make the migration
Were shot en route to their destination
And when the few who survived the concentration
Camps, finally received liberation
They still had no cause for celebration
Frail with disease, and emaciation
They had witnessed the total annihilation
Of the European Jewish population
A death toll beyond exact calculation
Though we do have a pretty good estimation
Six million Jewish lives were lost
Murdered in the Holocaust
And yet online a find there’s folks
Who claim that it’s some kind of hoax
But I know the facts because I’ve met
Eyewitnesses who can’t forget
And I wrote this song so the truth lives on
Long after the last survivor’s gone