Ballad of the Doomed Jew of Europe
Published as a paid advertisement by the "Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews"
in The New York Times, Tuesday September 14, 1943
Reproduced in America and the Holocaust, Volume 5, editor: David S. Wyman, Gerland Publishing Inc., 1990. Document No. 62
By
Ben Hecht
| Four Million Jews waiting for death Oh hang and burn but - quiet, Jews! Don't be bothersome; save you breath - The world is busy with other news. |
| Four million murders are quite a smear Even our State Department views The slaughter with much disfavor here But then - it's busy with other news. |
| You'll hang like a forest of broken trees You'll burn in a thousand Nazi stews And tell your G-d to forgive us please For we were busy with other news. |
| Tell Him we hadn't quite the time To stop the killing of all the Jews; Tell Him we looked askance at the crime - But we were busy with other news. |
| Oh World be patient - it will take Some time before the murder crews Are done. By Christmas you can make Your Peace on Earth without the Jews |