Our town is burning cries from the Holocaust.

Principally from the volume We are here : songs of the Holcaust [sic] / compiled by Eleanor Mlotek and Malke Gottlieb. [S.l.] : Workmen's Circle, [n.d.].

Compact disc.

Program notes and English translations of texts (11 p. : port.) inserted in container.

Es brent = Our town is burning (3:46) -- Gehat hob ikh a heym = I once had a home (3:10) -- Geto = Ghetto (3:52) -- Motele fun Varshever geto = Motele of the Warsaw ghetto (8:43) -- Der hoyfzinger fun Varshever geto = The streetsinger of the Warsaw ghetto (2:34) -- Treblinka (2:18) -- Tsvey taybelech = Two doves : old love song (3:04) -- Unter di Poylishe grininke beymelekh = Under the little green Polish trees (2:57) -- A Yiddish kind = A Jewish child (3:47) -- Ani mamin (1:01) -- Yidn zingen Ani mamin = Jews are singing Ani mamin (3:17) -- Four Terezin songs. Wild geese (2:23) ; Bamboo grove (2:00) ; The moon far away from home (4:38) ; Wakeful night (3:12) -- Minutn fun bitochn = Moments of hope (2:40) -- Babi yar (4:10) -- Yeder ruft mikh Zhamele = They call me Zhamele (2:10) -- Shtiler, shtiler = Quiet, quiet (2:09) -- S'dremlen feygl = Birds are dreaming (3:30) -- Tsu eyns, tsvey, dray = It's one, two, three (2:02) -- Dos elnte kind = The lonely child (1:58) -- Itzik vitenberg (2:06) -- Es vet zikh fun tsvaygl tseblien a boym = From a twig a tree will bloom (2:52) -- Yugnt himen = Hymn of youth (1:51) -- Shtil di nacht = Still the night (3:26) -- Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letztn veg = Never say that you are going on the last road (1:59).

Featuring Leon Lishner, bass. With, variously: Claire Osipov, soprano ; Melvin Strauss or Craig Sheppard, piano ; Ethan Rourke, boy soprano ; Allan Sanders, accordion ; Robert Dan, guitar ; Paul Taub, flute, recorder ; Seattle Peace Theatre Singers.

Recorded June 1994, at Meany Theater, University of Washington, Seattle.

Sung principally in Yiddish ; the 12th-15th works sung in Czech.