BELA GURVITSH
At age fifteen she was already in
the Kovno ghetto. She was the author of
two sorrowful poems, “Kolones” (Columns) and “Aerodromtshik” (Aerodrome [with a
derisive undertone]), from which one can see that she worked during the period
of the Nazi occupation at the airport in Kovno—a place where Jews were
frequently beaten. In the latter poem,
the young author sings: “I would fall down long, / Like an emaciated tree, /
Without a scrap of hope, / Without a bright dream.”
Source:
Sh. Katsherginski, ed., Lider fun di getos un lagern (Poems from the
ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948), pp. 9, 147-48.
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