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Song recording from Holocaust survivor of 1946 discovered

Song recording from Holocaust survivor of 1946 discovered

Recordings of songs and interviews with Holocaust survivors have been discovered in a mislabelled canister in an archive in Ohio. The songs include one that was sung in the cellars of a Krakow ghetto to inspire rebellion against the Nazis.In the summer of 1946, psychologist Dr David Boder interviewed at least 130 Jewish survivors in nine languages in refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. With a wire recorder and 200 spools of steel wire, Boder preserved some of the first oral histories of concentration camp survivors. He also recorded singing sessions and religious services.A portion of Boders work has been archived at The University of Akrons Drs Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology since 1967. But it wasnt until a recent project to digitize the recordings got underway that a spool containing the Henonville Songs, performed in Yiddish and German and long thought lost, was discovered in a mislabeled canister.This recording of a song named Undzer shtetl brent (Our Village is Burning) by Mordecai Gebirtig (Poland, ca 1938) is performed in Yiddish by Gita Frank. She provides a unique introduction to Undzer shtetl brent (a mainstay of commemoration ceremonies), stating that the piece had been sung by the composers daughter in the cellars of Krakow ghetto to inspire the people to rebel against the Germans. Frank also varies text in a significant way, altering the songs original refrain from our village is burning to the Jewish people are burning. Feb 3, 2017
Protests erupt as Trump nominates Judge Neil Gorsuch for next Supreme Court Justice

Protests erupt as Trump nominates Judge Neil Gorsuch for next Supreme Court Justice

President Donald Trump, on 31 January, nominated Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, picking the 49-year-old federal appeals court judge to restore the courts conservative majority and help shape rulings on divisive issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights.Gorsuch is the youngest nominee to the nations highest court in more than a quarter century, and he could influence the direction of the court for decades. Gorsuch is a judge on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and was appointed to that post by Republican President George W. Bush in 2006. Some Democrats in the U.S. Senate, which votes on whether to confirm judicial nominees, have already said they would seek to block whoever Trump nominates. Gorsuch is considered a conservative intellectual, known for backing religious rights, and is seen as very much in the mould of Antonin Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the court for decades Feb 1, 2017
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