Overview
- Description
- Two child Holocaust survivors sing the Treblinka song. Recorded in December 1946. Decelith disc recording sent to Rabbi Morris Dembowitz.
Side A contains a violin playing the Treblinka Song melody.
Side B contains the two young Buchenwald survivors singing the Treblinka song in Yiddish in 1946. - Date
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Recorded:
1946
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gift of David Dembowitz
- Contributor
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Collector:
Morris Dembowitz
- Biography
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Rabbi Morris Dembowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1915. His family had originally come from the Bialystok region of Poland. Morris Dembowitz attended Yeshiva University and then received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He married Leonore Markson in 1942. He served as a chaplain during World War II and was stationed first in Rouen, then in the children's home Ecouis where he worked with child survivors of Buchenwald and eventually in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp. Among his activities was the overseeing of the exhumation and reburial of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He later served as the Executive Director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia. Rabbi Dembowitz passed away in 2006.
- Format
- Phonograph record; Plastic; 10 inches; 78 rpm
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Music. Songs and music.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum places no restrictions on use of this material. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this film footage.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Recorded Sound Provenance
- David Dembowitz donated the collection belonging to his father, Rabbi Morris Dembowitz, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.
- Recorded Sound Source
- Mr. David Dembowitz
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:29:58
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Also in Morris Dembowitz collection
The collection consists of a poster, documents, and photographic prints relating to the discovery of Gardelegen and Ohrdruf concentration camps in Germany and a letter attesting to the origin of the "Treblinka Song" record.
Date: approximately 1945 May
US Army poster confronting German civilians with the atrocities at Ohrdruf concentration camp
Object
Poster titled "You Should Know" printed by the United States Army to confront German citizens about the atrocities at Ohrdruf concentration camp, the first camp ligerated by US soldiers.
Morris Dembowitz papers
Document
Consists of enlarged original photographic prints with original captions in English and German taken by members of the Ninth Army, United States military, in the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity. Includes photographs of victims of the massacre and of the burial of the corpses. Also includes a letter, dated 24 December 1946 and signed by "A. Kamerman," regarding a recording of the "Treblinka Song" by two children; the letter accompanied the original phonograph of this recording.
