Ari Lesser - Holocaust - Yom HaShoah

Connect on facebook: facebook.com/AriLesserMusic 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