Asia Pacific Coalition for Holocaust survivors
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Ted Pearce – ‘Forgotten People’
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Ted Pearce
6 million people crying from the grave.
Invisible people calling out their names
Beautiful people taken from their homes
Scattered people no where to go
And the mother and fathers and the sons and daughters
they were carried away in trains
Their bodies are broken and beaten and burned
and their ashes fell down like rain
They were branded with a number and a yellow star
and paraded around in shame
They called it a crime to be born a Jew
and in the name of god they were slain
The forgotten people
6 million people
The forgotten people
The chosen people
Blessed people who tried to help
while evil people schemed among themselves
Everyday people who ignored the news
Indifferent people sitting in the pews
Sound the alarm shouting “never again!”
Let a righteous revolution begin
History must never repeat itself
so lift your voices and take a stand
United as one for Zion’s sake
undivided as the nations rage
We’ve got to rise like an army in the name
of the nation that was born in a day
The forgotten people, 6 million people
The forgotten people, the chosen people
The forgotten people, 6 million people
Can you hear them calling out again?
(by Jobst Bittner )
The Bible says
“For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
punishing the children for the sin of the fathers
to the third and fourth generation
of those who hate me,
but showing love to a thousand generations
of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
(Ex 20:5-6)
Lord, I hear the cries of 6 million of your people.
Men, women, children
murdered, annihilated in the Holocaust and burnt.
We confess these atrocities as sin
and humble ourselves before you in shame.
You have heard our plea
and our repentance has come before your ears.
Lord, I see black smoke.
It rises up and spreads out like a veil of darkness
over our nations again!
This dark veil is the sin of our silence!
Just as we Germans have remained silent
the peoples and nations are silent once again.
Again, your people Israel is hated
despised and rejected
and yet we remain silent
even in the church
We are silent
concerning the sin of our fathers
We remain silent
and behold the black smoke is covering us again.
From the land of unmerited grace
we are calling out
Nations arise!
For Zion’s sake, open your mouth!
Never again
slander, hatred or death!
Israel — we will never forsake you again!
You are our inheritance, our love,
the blessing for all nations!
Listen! Receive the word!
It will pervade your spirit.
No more silence!
Never again!
Never again!
Never again!
