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Logo of the exhibition "Home and Exile. Jewish Emigration from Germany since 1933" in the Jewish Museum Berlin

Dove


Wooden Dove by Hilde Domin, 1950s

Translation of the poem:
"Dove,
when my house burns
when I am cast out again
when I lose everything
I'll take you with me,
dove of worm-eaten wood,
because of the gentle sweep
of your single unbroken wing."