Song About Holocaust -

Perhaps the most famous song to emerge from the Holocaust is not a post-war reflection but a wartime anthem of defiance. In 1943, while imprisoned in the Vilna Ghetto, a 23-year-old poet named Hirsh Glick heard news of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Despite knowing the Nazis would crush the rebellion, Glick wrote the Yiddish lyrics to Zog Nit Keynmol (Never Say).

Perhaps the most heartbreaking category of Holocaust songs comes from the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp, a "model ghetto" used for Nazi propaganda. Remarkably, over 100,000 Jewish children passed through Terezín. Under the direction of imprisoned composer Hans Krása, they performed the children’s opera Brundibár 55 times. song about holocaust

More controversially, in 1966, released “With God on Our Side.” While not exclusively about the Holocaust, one devastating verse references it directly: Perhaps the most famous song to emerge from