Words & Images

This poem was read at the end of UK National Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026.

A Dream by Avraham Koplowicz
When I grow up and reach the age of 20,
I’ll set out to see the enchanting world
I’ll take a seat in a bird with a motor.
I’ll rise and soar into space
I’ll fly, sail, hover,
Over the lovely faraway world,
I’ll soar over rivers and oceans
Skyward shall I ascend and blossom,
A cloud my sister, the wind my brother.

I’ll see the Pyramids and the Sphinx,
I’ll fly over Niagra Falls,
I’ll drift over the cloud strewn cliffs of Tibet,
By wind I’ll cross the great kangaroo island
I’ll fly slowly, hovering lazily,
And thus, basking in the enchantment of this world,
Skyward shall I soar and blossom,
A cloud my sister, the wind my brother.

Visual Resources

Karl Robert Bodek (1905–1942) and Kurt Conrad Löw (1914–1980)
One Spring, Gurs Camp, 1941

Yehuda Bacon, To the Man who Restored my Belief in Humanity, 1945