Life is ruthless and not fair,

Kindness seemed all to bare,

Magda, a sweet schoolgirl,

With a life to unfurl,

Born Rumanian,

Turned Hungarian,

War coming close,

Your brave soul never froze,

A smart young women,

All those laws tried to cloven,

Never did she stop her schooling,

Until the invasion sent her dooming,

Rounded up like awful pigs,

Never broke in their rigs,

Deported off to the camps,

Where left you in a cramp,

Your bravest heart, filled with courage,

Never broke in your bondage,

In the Auschwitz camp of death,

They could never steal your breath.

You were so mighty brave,

Parents into their mass graves,

Never broke your working spirit,

Let your wings unfurl, a tiny eglit,

Coming home to no one there,

Never wore you to your bare,

You made a life across the seas,

No more home in war-struck countries,

Magda you were so valiant,

You survived the awful treatment,

Let our voices sing you praise,

YOU ARE BRAVE, YOU ARE BRAVE!

This is an elegy to Magda Mozes, a 17-year-old Hungarian Jewish teen who survived the Holocaust. She was the only child in her family, and when Nazi Germany invaded Hungary after they tried to pull out to of their alliance, she was rounded up and set with her parents to Auschwitz, the most notorious gas chambers from World War II. She was a healthy young girl, sent to work. Her parents died. She was liberated from Meklenburg by Allied forces. In 1947 she moved to America, married, and lived to see her grandchildren. She is one of the few Jewish children to have survived the Holocaust. I hope you see something in this elegy.

~FlyandFall