January 31st 1944

Jan 23, 2019, 06:12 PM

On January 31 1944

at 2.30 in the morning in a village in France

4 policemen knock on the door of a woman 

who has several lodgers in her house.

They take away one of them, 

a man who has done nothing wrong.

They take him to a nearby town

to put him with 30 others

who have done nothing wrong.

He is taken away with them

and put on a train

to where he and they are put

with hundreds of others

who have done nothing wrong.

He is then taken away by train

carrying more than a thousand people

to another country

where he is put with thousands and thousands of others

who have done nothing wrong

and killed.