04-11-2026, 09:58 PM
Survivor
Cousin Yetty's family lived in Poland;
brothers, sisters, parents together watched her
leave for nursing school, an adventure dreamed of,
Holland so foreign.
Hitler's armies, seizing all power, rolled in
decimating Polish communities. In
Amsterdam, enveloped by hosts who hung a
cross on her neck, young
Yetty safely walked through the war, the only
one of eight surviving the genocide, one
woman, young and suddenly solo, lost in
mourning forever.
Immigrating, sponsored by cousins, life was
torture; never conquering grief, she cried out
What am I? A stone? That my God took them all,
leaving only me.
Cousin Yetty's family lived in Poland;
brothers, sisters, parents together watched her
leave for nursing school, an adventure dreamed of,
Holland so foreign.
Hitler's armies, seizing all power, rolled in
decimating Polish communities. In
Amsterdam, enveloped by hosts who hung a
cross on her neck, young
Yetty safely walked through the war, the only
one of eight surviving the genocide, one
woman, young and suddenly solo, lost in
mourning forever.
Immigrating, sponsored by cousins, life was
torture; never conquering grief, she cried out
What am I? A stone? That my God took them all,
leaving only me.