International Holocaust Remembrance Day
27 January 2020
Holocaust Remembrance Day – The Words THAT Matter!
Words can make a difference – both for good and evil. ORT students have been using the defiantly optimistic words of Vilna poet Hirsh Glik to inspire themselves and others as part of our ongoing campaign to bring Zog nit Keynmol to new generations. This video shows just a few highlights of their stunning recitals of Glik’s lyrics to the song, which is renowned as the anthem of the Jewish partisans.
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“This is the first time I’ve read or heard the poetry of someone from that time. It’s hard for me to imagine how he could have found the time or energy to be creative in those circumstances, but he did. And his verses are very powerful and life-affirming,” Maryusya said.
Learning the lyrics, Maryusya said, had made her think about the Holocaust and its lessons for humanity.
“We have to learn that a person must not be humiliated or destroyed because of their ethnicity, faith or politics,” she said. “We can’t expect everyone to be a saint but the more we protect each other, the more tolerant we are, the stronger humanity will become. The alternative is extinction.”
The Partisans’ Song in English
by Hirsh Glik, as translated by Aaron Kremer
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!
From land of palm tree to the far-off land of snow,
We shall be coming with our torment and our woe;
And everywhere our blood has sunk into the earth,
Shall our bravery, our vigor blossom forth.
We’ll have the morning sun to set our day aglow,
And all our yesterdays shall vanish with the foe;
And if the time is long before the sun appears,
Then let this song go like a signal through the years.
This song was written with blood and not with lead;
It’s not a song that summer birds sing overhead;
It was a people among toppling barricades,
That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades.
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for is near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!
Ellenbrook Secondary College and Carmel School
Western Australia
The World Premiere – the four language Partisan Song
In Yiddish, Hebrew, English and Noongar (Aboriginal)
The World Premiere of the four language Partisan Song
Source: youtu.be/iIJ-rC-DcWA
THE PARTISANS’ Song – in Cape Town
with Survivor Miriam Lichterman
Zog Nit Keynmol – in Cape Town with Miriam Lichterman
Source: youtu.be/GKKZgimSOtE
ORT Kiev #141 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kiev #141 – Zog Nit Keynmol
The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/rz3UErZJAJw
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #3
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/VxZL6WpkvZw
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #2
ORT St Petersburg #6 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #2
Source: youtu.be/5mSf5NpIKM4
Lauder School Tula – Zog Nit Keynmol
Lauder School Tula – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/llKaelpDJjE
ORT Kazan #12 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kazan #12 – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/j-H2duiFNRU
ORT Dnepropetrovsk #144 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Dnepropetrovsk #144 – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/xATkR_FWKV0
ORT #94 Odessa – The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
ORT #94 Odessa – The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
Source: youtu.be/9qLqSepTb28
ORT #41 Chernivtsi -The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
ORT #41 Chernivtsi -The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
Source: youtu.be/cEj0RusVgUQ
Tallinn Jewish School – Zog Nit Keynmol
Tallinn Jewish School – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/NytvW0TSgio
School #4 Novogrudok, Belarus
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Source: youtu.be/mC-ENiOXrhQ
Simonas Gurevicius & Daughters Sing Zog Nit Keynmol –
Simonas Gurevicius & Daughters Sing Zog Nit Keynmol – YouTube
Source: youtu.be/6BlmPWRpsVg