Shlof mayn kind, Shlof keseyder
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ליריקס און מוזיק / Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Paroles et musique / النص والموسيقى / Sanat ja sävel:
אַנאָנימע /Anonimo / Anonymous / Anonyme / مجهول / Nimeämätön

פּערפאָרמער / Interpreti / Performed by / Interprétée par / مطرب / Laulavat :
1. Paul Robeson

אלבאם / Album /الألبوم : Shlof, Mein Kind (Sleep, My Child)

2. Tania Solnik

אלבאם / Album /الألبوم :From Generation To Generation: A Legacy Of Lullabies [1993]

La vig lid [ ninna nanna ] Shlof mayn kind, Shlof keseyder fu riscoperta da Ruth Rubin. E’ riportata nel suo libro postumo Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive. Nella sua raccolta di 2000 canti yiddish, raccolti con cura per un quarantennio, questa struggente ninnananna fu registrata nel nastro n. 42

Ruth si trovò spesso a partecipare ai concerti folk anche con Paul Robeson.
L’interpretazione di... (Continues)

Shlof mayn kind
[1892]

ליריקס / Testo / Lyrics / Paroles / متن ترانه / Sanat:
Sholem Aleichem [שלום עליכם]

מוזיק / Musica / Music / Musique / موسیقی / Sävel:
Dovid Kovanovsky

1. פּערפאָרמער / Interpreti / Performed by / Interprétée par / مطرب / Laulavat :
Inna Barmash
אלבאם / Album / الألبوم :
Yiddish Lullabies & Love Songs [2013]

2. פּערפאָרמער / Interpreti / Performed by / Interprétée par / مطرب / Laulavat :
Lucette Van Den Berg
אלבאם / Album / الألبوم :
Shlof mayn kind [2020]


Dall’enciclopedia Yivo:
The lullaby “Shlof mayn kind” (Sleep my child) by Sholem Aleichem, first printed in Odessa in 1892, became folklorized by 1901, after it was submitted to collectors with changes by five individuals from different localities.
Parlando di canzoni folk Yiddish non si può fare a meno di tributare una menzione a Ruth Rubin. Dobbiamo a lei la diffusione anche di questa... (Continues)

[2008]
Versi di Guido Ceronetti (1927-2018), poeta e molto altro.
Nella raccolta "Le ballate dell'angelo ferito", pubblicata nel 2009

Sulla figura di Janusz Korczak si vedano Kartka z dziennika Akcji e Maestro Goldszmit

Sachsenhausen 1944
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica: Aleksander Kulisiewicz

For conspiring to kill a Nazi officer, the Germans sent Kulisiewicz's teenage half-sister Łucja to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944. On learning of her imprisonment, Kulisiewicz wrote this ballad, a fantasy-compilation of childhood legends and folktales whose villains, heroes, and strange, twisting plots brought to mind aspects of his own experience of life in a concentration camp. In the song, the wolf is based on the title character of a favorite childhood tale of Kulisiewicz, Bajka o żelaznym wilku (Story of the Steel Wolf, 1911) of Wacław Sieroszewski. The dragon was a legendary nemesis of early Polish settlers. Krak was a mythical dragon-slayer and founder of Krakow. Queen Wanda succeeded to the throne upon the death of her father, Krak, but drowned herself in the Vistula River rather than marry... (Continues)

Sachsenhausen 1944
Lyrics / Testo: Aleksander Kulisiewicz

Music / Musica: Zsigmond Lajos Kertész [1876-1953] (“Szép a rózsám”, 1933)

One form of torture routinely meted out at Sachsenhausen went under the innocent name of “Sport”. “My gate” recalls a typically malicious competition devised by the SS, the “Indian Dance”. As guards barked out the moves, prisoners were forced rapidly to raise their arms, look to the sky, whirl around, drop to the ground and stand again. This sequence would be repeated over and over. Kulisiewicz reports that inmates “vomited after such 'dancing', that the entire Apellplatz [assembly area] swayed before one's eyes, and with it the damned gate of the SS command”. Kulisiewicz first heard this popular central European tune sung to the Serbo-Croatian lyric, “Moja mala nema mane”.

Una forma di tortura comminata normalmente a Sachsenhausen andava sotto l'innocente... (Continues)

Sachsenhausen, 1944
Music / Musica: Unidentified / Non identificata

At Sachsenhausen, certain members of the Polish gentry sought to preserve their high-caste status by co-operating with the camp command. "It's cold, Sir!" challenges this "turncoat" behavior by ridiculing two upper-class Prominents, pseudonymously called Lulusiński and The Count. Both were informers, responsible for denouncing numerous underground activists to the Reich criminal police. Kulisiewicz's impudent gesture itself met with reprisal. In the middle of the night, in February 1945, he was pulled from his barrack and interrogated by the SS. The police, not surprisingly, had been acting on a "tip" provided by collaborationist friends of Lulusiński and "The Count". "Nice, warm dame" is a sly reference to the "Puff" (brothel) Kulisiewicz attests had begun operating in Sachsenhausen in 1944.



Disegno di Wiktor Simiński... (Continues)

Sachsenhausen 1943
Lyrics and music: Aleksander Kulisiewicz

Testo e musica: Aleksander Kulisiewicz

Es gibt dicke Luft! (“thick air coming!”) was the byword at Sachsenhausen when authorities threatened to break up a liaison between homosexual inmates. The persecution of gay prisoners peaked in the summer of 1942 when the Gestapo systematically delivered “registered homosexuals” -those marked by a pink triangle- to the Strafkompanie (punishment unit), an often fatal assignment. Homosexual activity nevertheless remained a fixture of life, notably among the so-called “asocial” (black triangle) and “criminal” (green triangle) prisoners. Of these, certain Prominents -privileged and protected inmates- managed to organize occasional get-together at their cell-blocks, complete with music and dancing. Kulisiewicz reports that in early November 1943, he was approached by a “green badge” prisoner... (Continues)

Lava thaj muzika / Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel :
Anonymous

Kinsztleri /Interpreti / Performed by / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
1. Ando Drom
Album: Chants Tziganes De Hongrie

2. Csókolom
Album: The Very Best of Gipsy World (Le meilleur des tziganes et gitans du monde)

Agosto 1944. I Rom nel lager di Auschwitz

Danuta Czech (1922 - 2004) era una storica polacca dell'Olocausto e vicedirettrice del Museo statale di Auschwitz-Birkenau a Oświęcim, Polonia. È conosciuta per il suo libro Kalendarium wydarzen w obozie Koncentracyjnm Auschwitz-Birkenau 1939–1945 , nell’edizione inglese The Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939–1945 (1990) . In circa 1000 pagine Danuta Czech traccia la cronistoria del lager dalla costruzione sino alla liberazione.
Quello che segue è un estratto del suo libro sul 2 agosto 1944, un giorno terribile del Porrajmos di Rom... (Continues)

Sachsenhausen, 1943
Music: Aleksander Kulisiewicz
Text: Zdzisław Karr-Jaworski, Aleksander Kulisiewicz

Sachsenhausen, 1943
Musica: Aleksander Kulisiewicz
Testo: Zdzisław Karr-Jaworski, Aleksander Kulisiewicz

In early 1942, Polish prisoners newly arrived at Sachsenhausen told Kulisiewicz about a “gorgeous and unforgettable” song they had heard at Gusen (a subcamp of Mauthausen), “Prisoner's Dream” (Sen więźnia). While the poem itself was memorable, no one could quite recall the original choral arrangement. Kulisiewicz, also struck by the poem, decided to create his own setting, in the process changing its title and eliminating certain nationalist and religious imagery. Some listeners protested, but Kulisiewicz felt the changes were necessary if (as he believed) an ecumenical spirit were to prevail among the culturally diverse prison population. “A song that presented a vision of peace”,... (Continues)

Sachsenhausen, 1943.
Lyrics: Aleksander Kulisiewicz
Music: Wiktor Krupiński (“Po kieliszku”, Tadeusz Faliszewski, 1932)

Sachsenhausen, 1943
Testo: Aleksander Kulisiewicz
Musica: Wiktor Krupiński (“Po kieliszku”, Tadeusz Faliszewski, 1932)

Quarantined to his barrack during an outbreak of typhus, Kulisiewicz conceived of the “Corpse-Carrier's Tango”, a ghoulish rejoinder to those in his audience who clamored for some “happy music”. The song's setting is the Sachsenhausen morgue, realm of the Sonderkommandos, prisoners whose “special detail” was to collect and dispose of the bodies of the camp's numerous dead. “To fully understand the tragic-parodic nature of this song”, Kulisiewicz noted, “one must recall the atmosphere of the 'corpse-cellar' detail, where the corpse-carrier, himself ofter near death, would nap for 10-15 minutes alongside the piles of naked, foul-smelling bodies”. Kulisiewicz... (Continues)

Treblinke dort
[1943]

“Mi chiamo Frieda Radasky. Sono nata a Varsavia, in Polonia, e sono sopravvissuta al regime nazista durante la II guerra mondiale. Quando stavo nel ghetto di Varsavia, c'era una canzone popolare che descriveva l'orribile tragedia che stavano subendo gli Ebrei di Varsavia. Parlava di come le famiglie venivano portate alla Umschlagplatz tra il terrore e le grida, poiché sapevano che, una volta portati a Treblinka, non sarebbero mai ritornati.”
Nel 1943, Frieda Bursztyn Radasky lavorava nelle cucine di un deposito di carbone in un distretto di Varsavia situato all'esterno del Ghetto; il distretto si chiama, curiosamente, Praga. Le lavoratrici nelle cucine erano tutte giovani donne; da quel posto, potevano assistere quotidianamente alla deportazione di centinaia di ebrei dal Ghetto; molti dei deportati credevano (o volevano credere) alla propaganda nazista secondo la... (Continues)

Dos zangl
[1943]
Parole / Lyrics / Paroles / Sanat: Hirsh Glik
Musica / Music / Musique / Sävel: Melodia popolare polacca / Polish folk tune / Mélodie populaire polonaise

Hirsh Glik -il cui cognome significa in yiddish, come il tedesco Glück, "fortuna"-, nato a Vilnius il 24 aprile 1922, verrà ricordato per sempre come l'autore di ciò che è diventato l'inno della Resistenza ebraica nei ghetti dell'Europa orientale: Zog nit keynmol. Ricordato? Chissà; si tratta di uno dei canti, probabilmente, più famosi della Storia intera, talmente famoso da averne (almeno in parte) oscurato l'autore. Hirsh Glik ebbe un'esistenza brevissima; la sua povera famiglia del ghetto di Vilnius (il padre era un modestissimo commerciante di vestiti usati) fu catturata dai nazisti nel 1941 e scomparve interamente. Hirsh fu deportato in un campo di lavori forzati in Polonia, Biała Waka, un'immensa torbiera in una... (Continues)

1944

Questa poesia ci è arrivata in una copia dattiloscritta, in basso indica la data "IX.1944"
This poem is preserved in a typewritten copy. In the right corner, “IX. 1944” scritto a matita si legge:
"scritto da un bambino di 10-16 anni, dei blocchi L 318 and L 4176.”
La poesia non è firmata ma un maestro di Terezìn O. Klein, riconobbe Hanus Hachenberg come autore.

La poesia era già presente, in quanto presente nelle Songs of Children Cantata cantata in inglese, e Alla Statua dei Martiri di Gorla cantata parzialmente in italiano.
E' stata interpretata in inglese anche da Adrian Snell.