Holocaust

Holocaust
After the war - late forties and the fiftyish
Magazines often published grizzly pictures
Of Jews being murdered for being Semitic.
Newspapers and magazines do not publish
Such photos anymore- perhaps rightly,-
They may give us nightmares.
Two old men and a boy standing at the edge
Of a mass grave, the three held their hands
Modestly over their genitalia.
German soldiers around and a civilian man
With a hunting rifle, he was there
To bag a Jew.
What happened to the civilian after the war?
Probably he survived and lived a long life
Somewhere in the Alps.
We, how have seen black & white photos
Of the truth will never forget.