Les Aventures de Simon et Gunther Stein

Little Gunther
Was born in 1941
And his brother Simon
Eight years earlier in June

In the heart of Berlin
In 1942
One took his first steps
The other, unhappily
Entered boarding school

In the same year
Their father was mobilized
Left home
To go into hiding

One Wednesday evening
He was denounced
The following Thursday
The Gestapo came for him
To arrest him

19 years later
Going down Bernauer Street
Simon hurried
To find his big brother

19 years later
It was August 13
Year 1961
The day the Berlin curtain was erected

And as before
Everything began again
Simon and Gunther
Were separated

Wiping away
Their flowing tears
They knew well that one day
Poor Simon
Would finally escape