Composed By: Abraham Cook

Arranged b: Joshua Jacobson

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Voicing: SATB or SA or TBB

Keyword Holocaust

Event/Holiday:

Language: Yiddish

Difficulty: easy

Country: Poland

Solos: any voice

Instruments: piano

Lyrics: Shmerke Kaczerginski

Publisher: Transcontinental

Year Composed/Published: c. 1946

Timing: 3:40

Tempo: deliberate

First Line: ongezolyet oyfn hartsn

description: Kaczerginski created this song as a vehicle to raise the morale of the Holocaust survivors he met in the DP camps after the Second World War. It has a wonderful refrain for audience participation. End a program of Holocaust remembrance on an uplifting note.