Colin Ian Jeffery - SCHINDLER'S LIST

Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi party and a war profiteer. He saved 1,100 Jews during the holocaust. He was enigmatic - - one man who against overwhelming odds made a difference.
'Save one life and you save the world.'

Dark tide of evil swept across Europe
Eclipsing light and truth
With Nazi jack-boots stamping down
On necks of innocence to oppress
With SS and Gestapo spreading terror
And for Jews... Hitler's Final Solution.

Schindler was a German businessman
Successful, enjoying a good life
Wining and dining in best restaurants,
Making love to beautiful women
Driving fast cars, friend of high ranking SS
Using the black market to make huge profits.

When he saw the treatment of the Jews
Forced to wear the Star of David
Humiliated and beaten in the streets
Living in ghettos like animals in a zoo
Transported in cattle trucks to death camps
Then a divine light flickered-on in his heart.

Seeing the evil he tried to rescue Jews
Purchasing a factory to employ Jewish labour
Saving them from the gas chamber
Creating his list of names and bribing the SS
Risking torture and execution
Saving as many Jews as he could.

Jews he saved called themselves 'Schindler's Juden'
And when the war was over Israel honoured him
Giving him the title of ‘Righteous Person'.
He planted a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous
Where it flourishes as a sign of one man's morality.
Oskar Schindler is buried in Israel.

Colin Ian Jeffery

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