Margot DeWilde

Ms. Margot DeWilde sat down with our 6th grade class to tell her life story. Based on her story the 6th grade created a song with Larry Long. Below are the lyrics:

We Should Love One Another

(Chorus)
We should love one another
We should love one another
We should love one another
From hurting each other
We should love one another
We should help one another right now

Back when I was so young
With my family I moved
From Germany to Holland
Back in World War II
They tried to kill all the Jews
(Chorus)

The bombs did fly for two days
From the sky down upon Rotterdam
If you don't surrender now
To Hitler's command
We'll bomb all of Holland
(Chorus)

No bicycles, no radios
Everything we had Hitler owned
With a J for Jew on my papers
Out of hiding we had to go
To Switzerland through Cologne
(Chorus)

The moment we touched German ground
The Gestapo took us away
In a cattle car packed like sardines
To Auschwitz on a train
All we had went down the drain
(Chorus)

The children screamed
The mothers' cried
Everyone had to separate
We had no names
Just numbers
Guinea pigs for the forces of hate
To little to live, to die, too late
(Chorus)

The women were sterilized
So when the war was through
I could not have children of my own
That is why I like to talk to
Good children just like you

(Chorus)

Words and music by Larry Long
with Mr. Rand's and Mrs. Monner's 6th grade classes of Cedar Manor Intermediate Center, St. Louis Park, MN
© Larry Long 2005/BMI
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