I know about this only what I've read:
that your orphans were to be deported
from the Warsaw Ghetto, that you chose
to keep them company, then died with them

in the gas at Treblinka. Teacher,
can you teach us to accompany them
even unto death? I'm afraid that with me
the children whose parent you became

would all be orphans again, & still.
This is the joy & despair of your example—
I hope to live in you, you die with them,
the children, the innocent ones, my orphans.

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