Your glow in your darkest hour – a poem for Disability History Month

Mon,21 December 2015
News Equality & Rights

In late October I went on a long, high speed train journey from Audley End to Berlin Hauptbahnhof as part of a pilgrimage to visit the T4 Memorial in Tiergartenstrasse.

A memorial to all those people with disabilities who were killed or forcibly sterilised by the Nazis. Standing on a frigid day seeing the memorial with its metal rims and blue panes of glass, I was moved to write many notes. Some of which became this poem.

I hope that this poem does all those who died at the hands of the Nazi Party and all those who survived justice.

Leo Capella

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