Gertrude Schneider sings ghetto songs
Creator(s)
- Gertrude Schneider (Performer)
Scope and Content
Gertrude Schneider, originally of Vienna, Austria, was deported with her family to the Riga Ghetto. On this January 26, 1985 recording, she sings several ghetto songs, including: "Moorsoldten" (tune, with variant German lyrics as performed in German ghetto), "Azoy mus zayn" (Latvian camp song, in Yiddish), "Tut tchinat gordon stalin" (Latvian ghetto song, in Russian), and "Ich hab kein Heimatland (fragment, in German).
Note(s)
Musicologist's file contains: Envelope and response card from Erick Schneider; typed note from Gertrude Schneider to Bret Werb; two handwritten cards from Gertrude Schneider to Bret Werb plus envelope; invitation to a tribute for Mordechai Gebirtig; 2 typed letters from Bret Werb to Gertrude Schneider; track list with handwritten notes; typed information on the Schneiders' address Related USHMM collections include: Oral history interview with Gertrude Schneider, Accession Number: 2010.22, RG Number: RG-50.613.0001, and Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Gertrude Schneider, Accession Number: 1996.166, RG Number: RG-60.5015.
People
- Schneider, Gertrude.
Subjects
- Riga (Latvia)
- Jews--Latvia--Riga.
- Jewish ghettos--Songs and music.
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Songs, Russian.
- Latvia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.
- Women singers.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Songs, Yiddish.
- Jews--Music.
- Jews, Austrian--Latvia.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Riga.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Songs and music.
- Ex-concentration camp inmates.
- Concentration camps--Latvia--Songs and music.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music.
- Songs, German.
- Concentration camps--Songs and music.
Genre
- Music.
- Recorded Sound