The poet

Music composed by Shiri Malckin & Jean-Marc Zelwer on the duduk

The Salted Kiss

Music Composed By Shiri Malckin 
Story Voice By Fanny Blachman-hochbaum 

TEXT 
I am now the little girl that I have not been

In 1942 during the war , I am an only hidden Jewish girl , in Sucy en Brie , I'm 4 years old, my mother did not give my name to my nurse, for fear of betraying me

For her : I was the little girl ....

When I asked my mother 60 years later
"Only you knew where I was and if you had not come back to get me ?"

" Well you would have stayed alive and I had fulfilled my role of mother "

" The role of a mother during the war , it was to save her child "

After finding a safe place for her and me in Saint Martin d'Heres

she comes to bring me back

I took her by the hand , we started walking and I stopped, crying

" What is going on?" asked for my Mom ? "I'm alone... " I replied
I feel regularly this loneliness, till nowadays 
Not when I 'm actually alone, at home

But in society, in a meeting , in a demonstration

I feel alone

For now , I'm the little girl, hidden , away from my family
Nameless and without certainty of finding my parents

My only consolation today is my doll
A photo of her and me recovered, a visit to an antique shop where I discover a doll France UNIS 301
It is the same as on the photo, a friend knits her identical clothes, everything is here
We are ready, her and me, NO ONLY ME 

Nothing replaces a lost childhood 
L'hebreu bientot

Shiri Malckin

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