Overview
- Collection Summary
- Songs included in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's web exhibition, "Music of the Holocaust" https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/music/. Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe. While popular songs dating from before the war remained attractive as escapist fare, the ghetto, camp, and partisan settings also gave rise to a repertoire of new works. These included topical songs inspired by the latest gossip and news, and songs of personal expression that often concerned the loss of family and home. Classical music—instrumental works, art songs, opera—was also produced and performed during this period, notably by prisoners at the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto and transit camp in Czechoslovakia, as well as in several other ghettos and camps. For many victims of Nazi brutality, music was an important means of preserving and asserting their humanity. Such music—particularly the topical songs—also serves as a form of historical documentation. Like “audio snapshots,” these works offer a telling glimpse into the events and emotions that their creators and original audiences experienced firsthand.
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Stand Fast
Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 1998.A.0321 | RG Number: RG-91.0098
From Land to Land
Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2002.190 | RG Number: RG-91.0091
Sunbeams
Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2002.190 | RG Number: RG-91.0107
Though
Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2005.458 | RG Number: RG-91.0083
The Name Jew
Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2005.458 | RG Number: RG-91.0104
Auschwitz
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0092
At the Edge of a Forest
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0093
There in the Camp
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0095
Weingarten
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0101
Never Say That You Have Reached the Final Road
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0102
There Lies Treblinka
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0103
Verdict
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0105
Yisrolik
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0106
We Long for a Home
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0175
Over Yonder in the Sunshine
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0176
Mister C
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0177
Muselmann—Cigarette Butt Collector
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0178
Dachau Song
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0179
Zipper's recitation of the Dachau song
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0180
Radasky's commentary on Treblinka song
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0181
Forward, You Witnesses!
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0182
Erich Frost speaking about the origin of Forward, You Witnesses!
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0183
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