{"id":572,"date":"2017-05-08T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/documents\/prewar\/duplicate-report-card-copy\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T22:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:47:29","slug":"engagement-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/documents\/pre-war-life\/personal-documents\/engagement-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Engagement Poem, 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"makeFlex\">\n<p><a class=\"foobox\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem.jpg\" rel=\"gallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-485\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-768x975.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-772x980.jpg 772w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-969x1230.jpg 969w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/05\/engagement_poem-151x192.jpg 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This poem was written by Hans Stern, Ernest&#8217;s brother, in 1937.<\/p>\n<p>The translation is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>I am not good at writing poetry<br \/>\nBut I want to address a few verses to you.<br \/>\nI wish you, Lotte, with all my heart,<br \/>\nthat you may see your star&#8217;s glitter everywhere<br \/>\nand be spared pain in your future together.<br \/>\nMay God hear this wish of mine.<\/p>\n<p>I leave it to Hugo Schwarz,<br \/>\nto set you, Nelly, in gold.<br \/>\nAnd since he is giving you so many additions,<br \/>\nhe will surely give you a live one, too.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Wotizky should not worry<br \/>\nwhen the two boys take her two daughters away.<br \/>\nMay she have lots of joy with the four of them<br \/>\nand with the grangchildren [sic], too.<\/p>\n<p>We also see *** in our midst<br \/>\nthe dear grandparents Lowy.<br \/>\nWhen I see their happiness,<br \/>\nmy heart jumps with joy.<\/p>\n<p>They may serve as an example in every respect.<br \/>\nI have finished my versifying<br \/>\nand lift my glass to wish you for all time<br \/>\nhealth, happiness, and contentment.<\/p>\n<p>-Copied from Lotte&#8217;s translation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was written by Hans Stern, Ernest&#8217;s brother, in 1937. The translation is as follows: I am not good at writing poetry But I want to address a few verses to you. I wish you, Lotte, with all my heart, that you may see your star&#8217;s glitter everywhere and be spared pain in your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/documents\/pre-war-life\/personal-documents\/engagement-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engagement Poem, 1937<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":485,"parent":1182,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-572","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/572\/revisions\/1204"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/terezin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}