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Here are two songs that have become
icons of remembrance of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. They
are 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.
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." The tune is attributed to Azriel David Festig, a leading Warsaw hazzan
(cantor) who died in the Holocaust. The song was performed after the war by
Rabbi Shaul Yedidia Eliezer Taub, the Admor (Rabbinical leader) of the Modzitz
Hassidic sect, and has become the iconic song of the remembrance in the
Hassidic community.
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