Those hidden songs survived the Holocaust and helped the singers undergo their very own survival.
Within the famend Holocaust documentary Shoah (1985), former SS guard Franz Suchomel sings a tune that prisoners needed to carry out on the Treblinka extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. After completing the closing line, he chillingly asks director Claude Lanzmann: “Satisfied? That’s unique. No Jew knows that today!” Greater than 30 years previous, in 1945, […]





