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Where is our Homeland? Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive Volume I
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Where is our Homeland? Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive Volume I --- 2020
The songs on this recording provide insight into Holocaust survivors' experiences both during World War Il and in the period preceding the war, which were documented by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. The widely diverse compositions presented here form a timeline that helps to recreate a multidimensional image of people's lives and the multiple identities they carried: as Jews by faith and roots, and as European citizens - Poles, Germans, Russians - by culture. These identities were shaped during the vibrant and dynamic interwar period, which is represented by several songs on this recording. The core of this collection, however, conveys the ways people managed to survive during the Holocaust, not least thanks to the support they gained through the songs they wrote and sang in ghettos and concentration camps all across Central and Eastern Europe. Includes booklet with explanations and lyrics in English, and depending on song, Russian, Hebrew, Polish, German
Tracklist
Doina - Badkhen's Song
Polish Army Songs
Trayb Di Khvalyes (Drive Your Waves)
Walc François
W Pociągu Jest Tłok (Crowded Train)
Kadima (Forward)
In Dem Kleinem Dorf, In Smiltschenzi (In the Tiny Town of Smiltschenzi)
Tuchi Nad Budyshchem (The Clouds Gathered Over Budyschche)
Stepan Blondin (Stepan the Blond)
Proschai, Gorod Nash Rodimyi (Farewell, Our Native City)
Płaszów Inmates' Song
Treblinka Song of Hope
Ani Ma'amin (I Believe)