Jakob the Liar
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So you ask me, as a Jew:
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"How could you tell a joke like that
at a time like that?"

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That's how we survived.
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Those were some of the things
that kept us going.

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Everything else,
the Germans had taken.

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They built high walls with
barbed wire to shut us in the ghetto.

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We were isolated from the rest
of the world for years without news.

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So we relied on the little things:
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A dark joke.
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A sunny day.
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A hopeful rumour.
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That's why we'd go
and sit by the ghetto wall...

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...and look at the tree
where I first kissed Hannah.

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And it was by that wall
that it all started.

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With a single sheet of newspaper.

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