Posted: Dec 1, 08 6:24pm
Wilhelm: It’s a sunny day Weimar, Germany. As I walked down town I smelled the bakeries. This is my home. This is where my family is. I was only gone for a month, but now I feel evil glances by Nazi’s soldiers who I thought was my friends. Now I’m push aside and called Juden swine. I don’t understand. I am just a man.
Up ahead I see a crowd of men being force to attach the Star of David on their back of their coats. I see the Jewish storefronts have the Star of David. Something is desperately wrong. I must find my family. What has become of my beloved home town? What will happen to us? My world is completely mad. There is my family! They are safe for now.
Elsa: We are afraid. We are all afraid. We are Jew and gentile alike. What should we do? I love you.
Wilhelm: May you make it through the night to see the rising sun. Run! Run into the woods! Run and hide!
DRUM SOLO
Wilhelm: I walk out of my house to take a look around four Nazi soldiers surround me. I hear the Shepard howl.
Nazi soldier: On your knee Jew!
Wilhelm: I heard the click and feel the cold steel against my skull.
Nazi soldier: HA HA HA HA . Help for you will never come. I should kill you like all the rest of the pigs, but you’re strong.
Wilhelm: I’m made to rise up to my feet, and put my hands behind my head and march to a rack truck. Where there are others with blank stares. We ride on this truck it seems for hours; children crying; mother whimpering. We piss ourselves; they will not stop except to herd others on to the truck. I watch old man, old woman and children slaughtered right before my eyes. Why are we to be saved? Is it because we are strong and young?
SONG:
Oh my love, my life, my children
I wonder if you are still free.
Run, run, run, my family
Run, run as far as you can see
I have been captured alive
Where do I go I do not know?
To return to you is my dream
Run, run far and fast
Death is at your door
Hide beneath the fallen snow
We will meet one day this I know
In life or in death
Run, run my family
Run, run and be free
Myron: a poem is read
The lady of time
I have written my external perdition
Climbed barbed wire fences to reach you
Yet, you lend out and screech through the night
I live only in my dreams
Chanting your name
Tongue salivating on my chin
Hell would be a joy
If I hadn’t been born there
I have cry a thousand tears
And lived a thousand life’s
But I have never come across a nightmare like you.
It is up to you and your demons
To reach out to me
LET THE BEAST OUT OF MY HEAD
I need to see another thousand life times
The bugs crawl on my skin now
I can not stay on this land much longer
JUST GIVE ME PEACE, IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU
HELP ME DIE
Myron clings to the fence. Myron starts talking to himself
Nazi Soldier: If you want to die; I will help you die. Bang, Bang, Bang, three shot to the head.
Wilhelm: We are separated men, women and children. Woman loaded on another truck. Men are made to march at gun point to haul rocks for a foundation. One man that is limping is shot. We are told to keep moving. The smell of death hangs in the air.
Alvin: I will tell you a story that you may find hard to believe. The Nazi had taken over our town. I was lucky enough to escape. I hid in the woods, crawling on my belly. Laying in puddles; making little noise as possible. I knew they were every where. What ever crawled I would eat it. Where ever there was a house I stole their food. I pushed myself deeper and deeper into the woods. I was lost. I was cold. I only have a shirt and pants, but no shoes. I stumbled of being tired and of the pain and from the loneliness of missing you; my Mary. My God there was the Klein’s family. We had them over for tea. I saw their grey bloated bodies just laying there; with a paralyzed stare. I look and saw, the Schmidt. Our children played together. If they had money or food on their bodies I would have to take it. Damn it I had to eat!
I heard foot steps. I hid laying down pushing myself under Oscar Schmidt body. It was the Nazis. I heard gun shots. They shot the bodies; I was shot in the leg and cried out. They heard me and forced me to walk to a truck with others I didn’t know. We were told to keep our mouth shut, and give up all valuables including the gold teeth that they pulled out along with toupees and prosthetics.
HITLER LIED!!
They threw us out of the truck like pigs to slaughter. Those without legs or arms died right there. We were moved into a group of Croatians. They look at me with hungry eyes, and I look at their hollow faces. They would kill me for cloths. HITLER LIED! I was slammed to the ground, and herded to our quarters that was bunks; two by five all ready holding other men shivering because of the frost that night. They had no cloths. All night long, this man clung to me sobbing about his family, and his beautiful black dog; that they shot in front of him.
We were loaded on the train to be resettled in the east. Packed like beans in a can. It was so hot. There were no bathrooms. No-one had food except what they carried with them. The trip took seemed like hours even days. People were dieing of starvation, lack of air, no water and illness. When the doors were opened we was glad for the moment, but what lay ahead was the worst yet to come. Children, pregnant woman, and old men were shot. Many had died in the train from slashed wrist.
DRUM SOLO
Fritz: my name is Fritz. I unloaded the trains. Those that were dead we stack them here and here and here. Stacked like wood. We loaded them on a cart to bring them to the chamber. Those that were strong enough, the men would help pull bodies day and night. The women went elsewhere.
DRUM SOLO
Hans: my name is Hans. I had the job of catching stones. We would unload them as fast as we could or get shot. One day the nerve and tendons was exposed in my hand. I went to the hospital. They cut off my fingers with rubber cutters. I was made to go back to work and catch rocks.
Narrator: Two hundred thousand handicap people were killed in the T-4 program. Patients were put in special gas chambers. Handicap infant and children was killed by injection or starvation. Bodies were burned at a crematorium.
INTERMISSION
Boys: we are two little Jewish boys; Emril and Arnold, we just watch our family die. We see a man crawling on his belly under the barbwire. We hear sirens and dogs in the distance. We hear pounding of feet and the pounding of boots. Shots ring out. The man stops moving. Two soldiers arrive and firer into the man body. The body is left to riot. It was our big brother.
Irving had told us to hid no matter what; no matter where. He told us to hide in the pig slop, in straw or break a window and hide in people house. We have hidden in filthy out houses. It has been four days since we have eaten. All the animals are dead. We must steal from the Nazi’s to live. We are closes to the compound now. We crawl on our bellies toward some rotten potatoes. We got them! Got us! Hold us by our hair.
The slit Emril’s throat and I am beaten. They call me “cute”. I don’t cry; I will not let them see me cry. I’m put in the car next to another boy. We are driven away. There is food for us in the car. We eat at gun point. I am brought to a big place; it looks like a castle. .One boys’ tries to escape and a dog is sent for him. He was dragged down. I was made to strip, given clean clothes and lock in a blacken room.
A man appears and he hurt me; in way that should have never happened. I’m bleeding; he laughs and leaves.
Wilhelm: we have been riding in this truck for hours; piss and feces everywhere. They made up jump off the truck into a puddle of mud. I almost drowned when five other land on top of me. The water was cold to my bare feet, but at least it was not direct wind on my skin. I am pushed forward. I feel like cattle being prodded. I am now an animal. I puke as I walk.
SONG:
Where is God now?
Where is God now?
I think he died today
He’s suppose to save us
Why should I pray?
Who are these demons?
The must work for Satan?
Today is the Sabbath
At sunset it began
My prayer goes unanswered
I must learn to live a lie
Everything goes unraveled
I ask myself why
Dreams are a nightmare
This I have learned
From here I hope to fly
Guns and dogs are everywhere
If I breathe tomorrow
It will be a blessing
If I breathe tomorrow
It will be a curse
SONG:
Why us?
Two voices:
We have lived here all our lives
And are no different then the rest
We have children
We have wives
Now we are treated like pest
Wipe from our meager existence
From our beds in the middle of the night
Families torn apart
No chance to resist or fight
What did we do to deserve this?
Why us?
We give our heart and soul to the Reich
Forfeited our children
What did we do to deserve this?
Why us?
Why us?
Who could ever imagined
This impending turmoil
Dieing with the rats in a cage
Won’t death be a friend
To end this suffering
Albert:
It is a sunny day in Weimar, Germany
Wilhelm: It’s a sunny day Weimar, Germany. As I walked down town I smelled the bakeries. This is my home. This is where my family is. I was only gone for a month, but now I feel evil glances by Nazi’s soldiers who I thought was my friends. Now I’m push aside and called Juden swine. I don’t understand. I am just a man.
Up ahead I see a crowd of men being force to attach the Star of David on their back of their coats. I see the Jewish storefronts have the Star of David. Something is desperately wrong. I must find my family. What has become of my beloved home town? What will happen to us? My world is completely mad. There is my family! They are safe for now.
Elsa: We are afraid. We are all afraid. We are Jew and gentile alike. What should we do? I love you.
Wilhelm: May you make it through the night to see the rising sun. Run! Run into the woods! Run and hide!
DRUM SOLO
Wilhelm: I walk out of my house to take a look around four Nazi soldiers surround me. I hear the Shepard howl.
Nazi soldier: On your knee Jew!
Wilhelm: I heard the click and feel the cold steel against my skull.
Nazi soldier: HA HA HA HA . Help for you will never come. I should kill you like all the rest of the pigs, but you’re strong.
Wilhelm: I’m made to rise up to my feet, and put my hands behind my head and march to a rack truck. Where there are others with blank stares. We ride on this truck it seems for hours; children crying; mother whimpering. We piss ourselves; they will not stop except to herd others on to the truck. I watch old man, old woman and children slaughtered right before my eyes. Why are we to be saved? Is it because we are strong and young?
SONG:
Oh my love, my life, my children
I wonder if you are still free.
Run, run, run, my family
Run, run as far as you can see
I have been captured alive
Where do I go I do not know?
To return to you is my dream
Run, run far and fast
Death is at your door
Hide beneath the fallen snow
We will meet one day this I know
In life or in death
Run, run my family
Run, run and be free
Myron: a poem is read
The lady of time
I have written my external perdition
Climbed barbed wire fences to reach you
Yet, you lend out and screech through the night
I live only in my dreams
Chanting your name
Tongue salivating on my chin
Hell would be a joy
If I hadn’t been born there
I have cry a thousand tears
And lived a thousand life’s
But I have never come across a nightmare like you.
It is up to you and your demons
To reach out to me
LET THE BEAST OUT OF MY HEAD
I need to see another thousand life times
The bugs crawl on my skin now
I can not stay on this land much longer
JUST GIVE ME PEACE, IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU
HELP ME DIE
Myron clings to the fence. Myron starts talking to himself
Nazi Soldier: If you want to die; I will help you die. Bang, Bang, Bang, three shot to the head.
Wilhelm: We are separated men, women and children. Woman loaded on another truck. Men are made to march at gun point to haul rocks for a foundation. One man that is limping is shot. We are told to keep moving. The smell of death hangs in the air.
Alvin: I will tell you a story that you may find hard to believe. The Nazi had taken over our town. I was lucky enough to escape. I hid in the woods, crawling on my belly. Laying in puddles; making little noise as possible. I knew they were every where. What ever crawled I would eat it. Where ever there was a house I stole their food. I pushed myself deeper and deeper into the woods. I was lost. I was cold. I only have a shirt and pants, but no shoes. I stumbled of being tired and of the pain and from the loneliness of missing you; my Mary. My God there was the Klein’s family. We had them over for tea. I saw their grey bloated bodies just laying there; with a paralyzed stare. I look and saw, the Schmidt. Our children played together. If they had money or food on their bodies I would have to take it. Damn it I had to eat!
I heard foot steps. I hid laying down pushing myself under Oscar Schmidt body. It was the Nazis. I heard gun shots. They shot the bodies; I was shot in the leg and cried out. They heard me and forced me to walk to a truck with others I didn’t know. We were told to keep our mouth shut, and give up all valuables including the gold teeth that they pulled out along with toupees and prosthetics.
HITLER LIED!!
They threw us out of the truck like pigs to slaughter. Those without legs or arms died right there. We were moved into a group of Croatians. They look at me with hungry eyes, and I look at their hollow faces. They would kill me for cloths. HITLER LIED! I was slammed to the ground, and herded to our quarters that was bunks; two by five all ready holding other men shivering because of the frost that night. They had no cloths. All night long, this man clung to me sobbing about his family, and his beautiful black dog; that they shot in front of him.
We were loaded on the train to be resettled in the east. Packed like beans in a can. It was so hot. There were no bathrooms. No-one had food except what they carried with them. The trip took seemed like hours even days. People were dieing of starvation, lack of air, no water and illness. When the doors were opened we was glad for the moment, but what lay ahead was the worst yet to come. Children, pregnant woman, and old men were shot. Many had died in the train from slashed wrist.
DRUM SOLO
Fritz: my name is Fritz. I unloaded the trains. Those that were dead we stack them here and here and here. Stacked like wood. We loaded them on a cart to bring them to the chamber. Those that were strong enough, the men would help pull bodies day and night. The women went elsewhere.
DRUM SOLO
Hans: my name is Hans. I had the job of catching stones. We would unload them as fast as we could or get shot. One day the nerve and tendons was exposed in my hand. I went to the hospital. They cut off my fingers with rubber cutters. I was made to go back to work and catch rocks.
Narrator: Two hundred thousand handicap people were killed in the T-4 program. Patients were put in special gas chambers. Handicap infant and children was killed by injection or starvation. Bodies were burned at a crematorium.
INTERMISSION
Boys: we are two little Jewish boys; Emril and Arnold, we just watch our family die. We see a man crawling on his belly under the barbwire. We hear sirens and dogs in the distance. We hear pounding of feet and the pounding of boots. Shots ring out. The man stops moving. Two soldiers arrive and firer into the man body. The body is left to riot. It was our big brother.
Irving had told us to hid no matter what; no matter where. He told us to hide in the pig slop, in straw or break a window and hide in people house. We have hidden in filthy out houses. It has been four days since we have eaten. All the animals are dead. We must steal from the Nazi’s to live. We are closes to the compound now. We crawl on our bellies toward some rotten potatoes. We got them! Got us! Hold us by our hair.
The slit Emril’s throat and I am beaten. They call me “cute”. I don’t cry; I will not let them see me cry. I’m put in the car next to another boy. We are driven away. There is food for us in the car. We eat at gun point. I am brought to a big place; it looks like a castle. .One boys’ tries to escape and a dog is sent for him. He was dragged down. I was made to strip, given clean clothes and lock in a blacken room.
A man appears and he hurt me; in way that should have never happened. I’m bleeding; he laughs and leaves.
Wilhelm: we have been riding in this truck for hours; piss and feces everywhere. They made up jump off the truck into a puddle of mud. I almost drowned when five other land on top of me. The water was cold to my bare feet, but at least it was not direct wind on my skin. I am pushed forward. I feel like cattle being prodded. I am now an animal. I puke as I walk.
SONG:
Where is God now?
Where is God now?
I think he died today
He’s suppose to save us
Why should I pray?
Who are these demons?
The must work for Satan?
Today is the Sabbath
At sunset it began
My prayer goes unanswered
I must learn to live a lie
Everything goes unraveled
I ask myself why
Dreams are a nightmare
This I have learned
From here I hope to fly
Guns and dogs are everywhere
If I breathe tomorrow
It will be a blessing
If I breathe tomorrow
It will be a curse
SONG:
Why us?
Two voices:
We have lived here all our lives
And are no different then the rest
We have children
We have wives
Now we are treated like pest
Wipe from our meager existence
From our beds in the middle of the night
Families torn apart
No chance to resist or fight
What did we do to deserve this?
Why us?
We give our heart and soul to the Reich
Forfeited our children
What did we do to deserve this?
Why us?
Why us?
Who could ever imagined
This impending turmoil
Dieing with the rats in a cage
Won’t death be a friend
To end this suffering
Albert:
