Songs from the Holocaust survivors' testimonies (from the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale U), with a booklet containing texts with English translations and liner notes, as well as the artwork beautifully designed artwork by Yulia Ruditskaya. Ships worldwide.
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lyrics
We did not really have school. There were undercover classes. And I have a little book from that time. And I remember one day, there were three SS men who came in. One was Heidl, and one probably was Rahm who was the camp commandant. And the third one, I am pretty sure, was Eichmann. And I remember I had this little book and I hid it under the table. And the strange thing was that I had a funny emotion at that time. I was biting my tongue that I wouldn’t laugh. It’s a strangest thing. Out of fear, I wanted to laugh. It’s a strange situation. And I said, oh my god, I just hope when they come in, I won’t laugh. And I was biting my tongue constantly that I should not act up and I should look down, because we were not supposed to look in the face of an SS man. Stare down, don’t make any eye contact.
Now here is the little book that I had. It was written in pencil, and it says here “Theresienstadt, 1944.” I had an English class, and I learned a poem which goes like this:
I wish I were a little bird
Up in the bright blue sky,
That sings and flies just where he will,
And no one asks him why.
To me that has sort of become my motto. Freedom is something fantastic and we take it for granted many times.
credits
from Where Is Our Homeland - Songs from Testimonies, Vol.1,
released December 27, 2019
From the testimony of Inge Auerbacher
Music: D. Zisl Slepovitch
Craig Judelman (violin), Joshua Camp (piano), Dmitry Ishenko (bass), Zisl Slepovitch (clarinet); Inge Auerbacher (tape).
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