4/5/1943:

4,000 Jews were shot at Ponar, Lithuania

(100,000 would eventualy die there)

One 3-yr-old survived.

          Ch'ob gezen dayn tatn loyfn
          Unter hogl fun shteyn—
          Iber felder iz gefloygn
          Zayn faryosemter geveyn.
  
             I have seen your father running
             Through a hail of stones,
             And across the fields there drifted
             His melancholy groans.
  
                  "S'dremlen Feygl Oyf Di Tsvaygn" by Leah Rudnitzky
                  In Treasury of Jewish Folksong, Ruth Rubin; 1950

Shortly after writing the song, Rudnitzky died at Majdanek death camp.

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