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Songs of the Vilna Ghetto

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Released
  
1969

Release date
  
1969

Genre
  
Jewish music

Language
  
Yiddish

Label
  
Columbia Records

Songs of the Vilna Ghetto is a compilation LP record featuring twelve Yiddish songs from World War II era. The songs were composed by the inmates of the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust and are sung by Nechama Hendel, Chava Alberstein, and Shimon Israeli with accompaniment from the CBS Israel Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Gil Aldema. The album contains an 8-page booklet with lyrics in the Hebrew language, photographs from the ghetto, and historical information about the songs in English. According to the liner notes, the recording "was prepared by the Yitzhak Kalznelson House of the Ghetto Fighters, at Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel, in co-operation with the Vilna Organisation [sic] of Haifa."

Songs

1VilnaChava Alberstein3:33
2Partizaner LiedShimon Israeli with CBS Israel Orchestra3:30
3Vig-LiedNechama Hendel3:34

References

Songs of the Vilna Ghetto Wikipedia