Professor Oppenheim

A stern Latin scholar,
Friend of Sigmund Freud,
My Latin teacher
At the Akademischen Gymnasium,
The elite school for the gifted
In my old hometown - Vienna,
Murdered by the Nazis
In Theresienstadt in 1943,
But now, at my old school
They celebrate his name,
The very same people
Who killed him,
What hypocrites,
Have they no shame?

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz