LITUANUS LITHUANIAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   Volume 47, No. 4 - Winter 2001 Editor of this issue: M. Gražina Slavėnas ISSN 0024-5089 Copyright © 2001 LITUANUS Foundation, Inc.

LITTLE GIRL RETURNING TO VILNIUS GHETTO FOR HER DOLL
(1943)

ALFONSAS NYKA-NILIŪNAS 
Translated by M. Gražina Slavėnas

December night
(Blood steps on virgin snow)
A little girl —
—only hair and eyes—
At a yellow door,
Stops, knocks, begs:
I need my doll!
It is so cold in Paneriai.

1986