the image and the word

perils incited
and the preservation of
the freedom of speech

Danish image and JFK's word

the sorrow and the pity

Pierre Mendes-France, a Frenchman of Jewish origin, recalls the moment he is about to escape from imprisonment during WWII in France under German occupation.

He is standing on the wall about to leap when he realizes that there are two other individuals present. It is a man trying relentlessly to woo a woman, who after some time she reluctantly accepts. Pierre vicariously reflects on how the man must have felt overjoyed to have won her affections (albeit forced), but that he too was just as joyous or even more so having just escaped.

freedom, liberty
nothing compares, not even
love consumated

"Dont go 'round moping hoping happy days will come
That's not the way, it doesn't pay
If you want happiness just help yourself to some
Why don't you try to take life the way I do

Let the whole world sigh or cry
I'll be high in the sky
Up on top of a rainbow sweeping the clouds away

I dont care what's down below
Let it rain, Let it snow
I'll be up on a rainbow sweeping the clouds away

I have learned life's lesson, fighters always win
and there are those who can take it right on the chin
and grin!

And so I shout to everyone
Find your place in the sun
Up on top of a rainbow sweeping the clouds away"


- the closing tune of the sorrow and the pity documentary

lest we forget auschwitz

take pause to listen
to voices that were silenced
behind the barbed wire