Composed by: Gideon Klein

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Voicing: SSA

Keyword Terezin

Event/Holiday: Holocaust remembrance

Language: Hebrew

Difficulty: moderate/easy

Country: Czech

Solos: soprano

Instruments: none

Lyrics: Gideon Klein?

Publisher: Schott

Year Composed/Published: 1942

Timing: 2:00

Tempo: moderately slow

First Line: bachuri le’an Tisa

description: Gideon Klein was a pianist/composer who was imprisoned in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp, near Prague. He wrote this for one of the treble choirs in the camp. Klein and most of the prisoners were ultimately murdered in the death camps. The lyrics may be an amorous conversation between two teenagers who are breaking up, or possibly a message of farewell as the boy boards the train for the death camp.