Undzer shtetl brent (Our Village is Burning) (AUDIO)
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"Undzer shtetl brent" (Our Village is Burning) by Mordecai Gebirtig (Poland, ca 1938). Performed in Yiddish by Gita Frank. She provides a unique introduction to "Undzer shtetl brent" (a mainstay of commemoration ceremonies), stating that the piece had been sung by the composer's daughter in the cellars of Krakow ghetto to inspire the people to rebel against the Germans. Frank also varies text in a significant way, altering the song's original refrain from "our village is burning" to "the Jewish people are burning."
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University of Akron
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