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We carry with us a powerful message from this event today, where we’ve come together to show a strong sense of community and inclusiveness. We remember today a special person who dedicated his life to enriching and supporting our communities and charities in Cambridge, our Mayor, Nigel Gawthrope, who has sadly passed away, so we’ll end with a tribute to him by Cllr Anna Smith. In memory of Nigel G...

'What Home Means to Me' A place where I feel safe A place where I am me A place where I feel warm A place where I am free I love the place I call my home I love the place where I am me I love it in the heart of my home Home is deep inside of me. Home is a roof over my head Home is a pillow on my bed Home is the smell of good things to eat Home is the floor under my feet Home is the door I want to...

Torn from Home What we’re going to tell you about won’t take LONG We weren’t doing anything you could say was WRONG This is all about being in the wrong kind of PLACE This is all about having the wrong kind of FACE This is all about being in the wrong kind of LINE This is all about being in the wrong kind of TIME ‘cos we were called out turned out pushed out shoved out nowhere to call home we were...

OSCAR & RACHEL ON CONVOY 62 , BY MICHAEL ROSEN  IMAGINING WHAT HIS GREAT UNCLE OSCAR AND GREAT AUNT RACHEL WOULD HAVE EXPERIENCED AS THEY HAD NARROWLY MISSED ESCAPING BY BOAT AND INSTEAD ARRESTED AND TRANSPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ BY TRAIN, FROM PARIS IN FRANCE TO AUSCHWITZ IN POLAND CRAMMED IN A CATTLE TRUCK, WHERE ON ARRIVAL THEY WERE MURDERED BY THE NAZI REGIME IN GAS CHAMBERS.   What did you thi...

KINDNESS BY MICHAEL ROSEN A knock at the door A catch of breath Find a way out Or is that way death? The danger of being heard The danger of being seen The danger of being us But what does it mean? Running in the dark Listening for voices Press on or hide? Impossible choices. The danger of being heard The danger of being seen The danger of being us But what does it mean? A knock at the door Is thi...

On January 31 1944 at 2.30 in the morning in a village in France 4 policemen knock on the door of a woman  who has several lodgers in her house. They take away one of them,  a man who has done nothing wrong. They take him to a nearby town to put him with 30 others who have done nothing wrong. He is taken away with them and put on a train to where he and they are put with hundreds of others who hav...

Martin Rozen  There is a report in the archives of the  ‘département’ of the Vendée in western France which says that: on 31 January 1944,  officers Salomon, Mazouin, and Cabanetos  under command of Adjutant Le Papu, from the Fontanay-le-Comte station, in the Sainte-Hermine Brigade acting on instructions from  Prefect Monsieur Gaston Jammet according to the ordinance of Jan 20 1944 called at 2.30...

Martin Rozen There is a report in the archives of the ‘département’ of the Vendée in western France which says that: on 31 January 1944, officers Salomon, Mazouin, and Cabanetos under command of Adjutant Le Papu, from the Fontanay-le-Comte station, in the Sainte-Hermine Brigade acting on instructions from Prefect Monsieur Gaston Jammet according to the ordinance of Jan 20 1944 called at 2.30 in th...

YOURS HOPEFULLY by Michael Rosen Meine Lieben my dears, from where we are now but I can’t say how we have hopes we have fears . So send us news send us a word Please send for our brothers send for our mother. Nothing more can be said as this letter may be read by others. Dear sisters from your brothers between us such a distance meine Lieben ambestens**.   I close this letter  hoping with you  tom...

Lyrics by Michael Rosen, Musical Composition by Bethany Kirby commissioned by Historyworks Verse 1 (twice – soloist 2 lines; small group 2 lines; then full choir 4 lines) Home is a roof over my head Home is a pillow on my bed Home is the smell of good things to eat Home is the floor under my feet< /p> Pre-chorus (unison) A place where I feel safe A place where I am me A place where I feel wa...

Lyrics by Michael Rosen, Musical Composition by Bethany Kirby commissioned by Historyworks Verse 1 (twice – soloist 2 lines; small group 2 lines; then full choir 4 lines) Home is a roof over my head Home is a pillow on my bed Home is the smell of good things to eat Home is the floor under my feet< /p> Pre-chorus (unison) A place where I feel safe A place where I am me A place where I feel wa...

Lyrics by Michael Rosen, Musical Composition by Bethany Kirby commisioned by Historyworks Verse 1 (twice – soloist 2 lines; small group 2 lines; then full choir 4 lines) Home is a roof over my head Home is a pillow on my bed Home is the smell of good things to eat Home is the floor under my feet< /p> Pre-chorus (unison) A place where I feel safe A place where I am me A place where I feel war...

Lyrics by Michael Rosen (commissioned by Historyworks) Musical Arrangement by Bethany Kirby.  LYRICS What we’re going to tell you about won’t take LONG We weren’t doing anything you could say was WRONG This is all about being in the wrong kind of PLACE This is all about having the wrong kind of FACE This is all about being in the wrong kind of LINE This is all about being in the wrong kind of TIME...

Lyrics by Michael Rosen (commissioned by Historyworks) Musical Arrangement by Bethany Kirby.  LYRICS What we’re going to tell you about won’t take LONG We weren’t doing anything you could say was WRONG This is all about being in the wrong kind of PLACE This is all about having the wrong kind of FACE This is all about being in the wrong kind of LINE This is all about being in the wrong kind of TIME...

Lyrics by Michael Rosen (commissioned by Historyworks) Musical Arrangement by Bethany Kirby.  LYRICS   What we’re going to tell you about won’t take LONG  We weren’t doing anything you could say was WRONG  This is all about being in the wrong kind of PLACE  This is all about having the wrong kind of FACE This is all about being in the wrong kind of LINE This is all about being in the wrong kind of...

Lyrics by Michael Rosen (commissioned by Historyworks) Musical Arrangement by Bethany Kirby.  LYRICS What we’re going to tell you about won’t take LONG We weren’t doing anything you could say was WRONG This is all about being in the wrong kind of PLACE This is all about having the wrong kind of FACE This is all about being in the wrong kind of LINE This is all about being in the wrong kind of TIME...

Commisioned by Historyworks Lyrics: Michael Rosen Recording, Music & Score: Bethany Kirby Download a copy of the SCORE HERE Verse 1  Come Sisters and brothers Come Fathers and mothers Come on down to Stourbridge Fair Come Girls and boys there's puppets and toys Come on down to Stourbridge Fair Verse 2 See Singers and sailors See Tinkers and tailors Come on down to Stourbridge Fair For collars...