דער קערפער פֿון השם"Even under conditions of extreme inhumanity, humanity has the capacity to find solace in creative expression.
In the #concentrationcamps and #ghettoes of #Europe under the #Nazi regime, #music became a sanctuary, a way to preserve #Jewish identity, process trauma and maintain a historical record. A small chapter of this vast record, which resurfaced in #Sydney, represents one of the earliest #printed collections of #Holocaust #songs.
#Australia became home to one of the world’s largest populations of Holocaust survivors outside #Israel after the second world war. The influx of #refugees fundamentally shaped the postwar multicultural fabric of Sydney and #Melbourne, importing deep, intergenerational trauma along with extraordinary stories of endurance and survival.
It was into this postwar environment that one survivor quietly brought a small #Yiddish #songbook, that then lay concealed for almost six decades."
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