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This song has become an icon of remembrance of the six million Jews
who died in the Holocaust. It is traditionally played on Holocaust Day, which
is on the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan
in Israel, or January 27th in the rest of the world.
Unter Dyne Vyse Shteren (Under the Starry Sky)
was written by Avraham Sutskover, a leading Yiddish
poet, while trapped in the ghetto of Vilna, in July 1943. Days before the
ghetto was destroyed and all the Jews murdered, Sutskover escaped to the forest
with his wife. He reached Russia, and in 1947 moved to Palestine. He died in
Israel in 2010 at the age of 96. The poem was set to music by Avraham Brodna, a
simple laborer in the Vilna ghetto who died in a concentration camp.
This is one of four songs for Holocaust
Remembrance Day that I have arranged for string quartet. The set of songs is
available for download at https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/four-songs-of-the-holocaust-arranged-for-string-quartet-digital...
The other songs are
Ani Maamin (I Believe): The words to this simple song are of the Jewish prayer
"I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah."
Shtiller Shtiller (Hush Hush) was written by Alexander Volkovitzky, then a 12-year-old
boy, in the Vilna Ghetto in the spring of 1943.
Hatikva (the Hope) is Israel's national anthem. The words are by Naftali Zvi
Imber, and the tune is a traditional eastern European tune.
You are welcome to try some of my other arrangements. In addition
to the songs offered on this site (you can see them at http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=Yoel+Epstein
), I have arranged three songs from the Holocaust, which I arranged and
distribute for free on IMSLP. You can find them at http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ravpapa.
If you need arrangements of any of these songs for special
combinations of instruments, feel free to contact me,
and I will try to accommodate. Write me at yoelepst@gmail.com. Hope you enjoy.
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