Song sheet for the Yiddish song "Es Bengt Zich Nuch A Hajm" (We Long for a Home) performed by The Happy Boys jazz band, which toured the displaced persons camps throughout Germany from 1945 to 1949.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: N03182

Overview

Caption: Song sheet for the Yiddish song "Es Bengt Zich Nuch A Hajm" (We Long for a Home) performed by The Happy Boys jazz band, which toured the displaced persons camps throughout Germany from 1945 to 1949.

The music for this song was composed by Stranski, the lyrics, by Chaim (Henry) Baigelman.
Date: Circa 1945 - 1949
Locale: Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Henry Baigelman

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Henry Baigelman

Source Record ID: Collections: Exh. Loan: Beigelman

Keyword: ARTIFACTS BAIGELMAN, CHAIM (HENRY) DP (EXHIBIT) EXHIBITIONS (SPECIAL) MUSIC (SHEET/SONGBOOKS)
Photo Designation: EXHIBITIONS -- Special Exhibitions and Publications -- Displaced Persons -- Archival/Textual Records

Artifact Photographer: Max Reid
Biography: Henry Baigelman (born Chaim Baigelman) was born in Lodz, Poland to a family of professional musicians. He was trained to play both the violin and saxaphone. During the German occupation, he performed with the Lodz ghetto orchestra under the direction of his eldest brother, David, a noted composer and conductor. After the war, Chaim, together with seven fellow surviving musicians from Lodz, formed the touring jazz band The Happy Boys. The band was renowned for its lively arrangements and agreeable mixture of prewar hits, light classics, Jewish selections, and original songs about the lives and concerns of Jewish displaced persons. Chaim and his wife Gita immigrated to the United States in 1949.