Cry, My Heart, Cry! Songs from Testimonies, Vol. 2 CD by Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje, with packaging & booklet. Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University. Artwork by Yulia Ruditskaya. Limited quantity available!
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Cry, My Heart, Cry! Songs from Testimonies, Vol. 2 vinyl LP by Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje, with packaging & booklet. Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University. Artwork by Yulia Ruditskaya. Limited quantity available!
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lyrics
Es iz a shturm durkh di velt aropgegangen,
Es hobn felker farvandelt on lender.
On rakhmones yoysherdik khurev gemakht a velt.
Di zin fun himl arupgerisn, in fin tog gemakht nakht.
Dort nisht vayt
Iz der Umschlagplatz far layt
Vi men shtiptsakh in der brayt
Tsu di vagonen.
Dort hert men ayn geshray,
Vi ayn kind shrayt tsu der mamen:
“Vi lozti mikh alayn?
Lomir geyen tsuzamen!”
Di politsay,
Zey hobn gehaysn shneler gayn.
Di vest nit laydn mer kayn noyt.
Di vest bakimen dray broyt.
Zey hobn nisht gevist,
Az zey gayen oyf a shnelen toyt.
Treblinke dort—far yedn yid a gite ort.
Ikh du, du dort.
Men ken nisht shrayen mer kayn vort.
Ver’s kimt ahin, farblaybt men dort.
Dort in Treblinke.
Dos harts tit vay,
Ven me’ tit zikh nor dermanen
Fin tate-mame kayn Treblinke same.
Shray, hertsale, shray
Hertsale, zug nisht oys,
Az di bist a yid.
Shvester in brider, tate-mame,
Ale gayen tsuzamen,
Ale gayen tsu farsamen
Vayl di bist a yid.
Shray, hertsale, shray.
Hertsale, zug nisht oys,
Az di bist a yid.
The storm raged through the world,
Entire nations remained without their countries.
Ruthlessly, the storm equally destroyed the world.
It ripped the sun from the sky and turned day to night.
There, not far,
There’s the deportation site (Umschlagplatz),
Where they hustle far and wide
To the cattle cars.
There one hears a scream,
A child is calling for his mother,
‘How come you’re leaving me alone?
Let us go together!’
The police,
They ordered them to move faster.
You will not suffer any need,
You will receive three loafs of bread.
They didn’t know,
They were going to their deaths.
There’s Treblinka, a fitting place for every Jew.
I’m here, you’re there,
You can’t share another word.
Those who come there, stay there,
There, in Treblinka.
The heart pains
When one starts to remember
The past, mom and dad, and the journey to Treblinka.
Cry, my heart, cry,
Cry, my heart, don’t speak,
Because you are a Jew.
Sisters, brothers, and parents,
They all are going together,
They all are going to be poisoned,
Because they are Jews.
Cry, my heart, cry,
My heart, you won’t express yourself,
Because you are a Jew.
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