Hello, Alan here and Im still on my Yiddish music kick. The Web seems ignorant of the name of the signer who performed on this 1928 track, Beltz, Mayn Shtetele Beltz (Beltz, My Little Town of Beltz) The lyrics evoke life in a one of the small, Jewish towns which were found throughout eastern Europe before The Holocaust. There is Wiki disagreement about whether the song was originally written about the western Ukrainian town of Belz, that nations smallest city, or the much larger Bălți, located in the Republic of Moldova near the Black Sea. The song is played in ceremonies at Auschwitz at the end of official visits by members of the Israeli armed forces, chaperoning survivors on visits to the former concentration camp. According to the BBC, a guard responsible for leading families to the gas chambers heard a 16-year-old boy playing it and demanded that he continue, to keep the victims calm. Lyrics: BELTZ, MY LITTLE TOWN OF BELTZ So when I recall to myself my childhood years, just like a dream. it seems to me how does the little house look, which used to sparkle with lights? Does the little tree grow still which I planted long ago? Refrain: Beltz, my little town of Beltz The little house where I spent my childhood! Beltz, my little town of Beltz The poor little room, where I used to laugh with other children. Every Shabes I would run with all the other children to sit under a little green tree, to read by the river bank Oh oh oh Beltz my little town of Beltz My little home where I had so many fine dreams. The little house is old overgrown with moss. the little house is old no glass in the windows the little house is old the walls are bent I would surely not recognize it again. youtu.be/mNKNypH1Juo
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:00:00 +0000