Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek have a new CD -- "Ghetto Tango(Traditional Crossroads)" -- of songs sung in the ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust.Some other songs sung in the camps and ghettos that you might want to look at include:
Mayn Shvester Khaye- available on "The Well (Xenophile)" by Chava Alberstein & the Klezmatics;
Der Hoyfzinger Fun Varshever Geto- available on "The Thirteenth Anniversary Album Live (Rounder)" by the Klezmer Conservatory Band;
Schtille di Nacht- available on "We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert 1963 (Columbia/Legacy)" by Pete Seeger;
Di Nakht- available on "Aleyn (Green Linnet)" by June Tabor.
Some excellent songs written about the Holocaust or reactions to it include:
Train for Auschwitz- by Tom Paxton, available on "The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways);
Children of Poland- available on "Unfinished Portraits" by Si Kahn;
Dachau- available on "The Passing (Prime CD)" by Jack Hardy.
Tattoo- available on "Breaking Silence (Morgan Creek" by Janis Ian;
Ways to Survive- available on "Isle of Spirit (Sanctuary)" by Bernice Lewis;
Auschwitz- available on "The Man on the Ledge (Shanachie)" by Rod MacDonald.
Mike Regenstreif