il-002798-m 1 pf
type: RecordSet
archival history: This collection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (M.1). The CHC collected much material from the Holocaust survivors, including testimonies, documentary material in their possession and more. When the CHC was disbanded, the CHC archive was transferred to Yad Vashem.
archivist note: JL according to the RG description in the YV system
has or had script: Hebr
location of copies: USHMM
location of originals: YV archives
other finding aids: Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room and on the Yad Vashem website
has beginning date: 1941-01-01
has creator: 1048
has end date: 1948-12-31
has or had holder: il-002798
has or had some members with language: yid
has or had subject: 1048
has or had subject: 904
has or had subject: 694
has or had subject: 905
has or had subject: 278
has record set type: Subgroup
identifier: M.1.PF
record resource extent: 368 Files
scope and content: There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during the war, and some after the end of the war. The poems/songs express the suffering and torture, the life under subhuman conditions and the murder of the Jews; they also tell of the burning of synagogues and desecration of holy books and religious articles. Despite the despair permeating the poems/songs, there is also a spark of hope, a ray of light at the end of the tunnel and the yearning for victory and revenge against the Germans as well as the expectation of reaching Eretz Israel, the State of the Jews to be established after the liberation. Approximately 35 of the songs in the collection were recorded; they appear as recordings and are catalogued in the Sapir system.
title: Documentation on Jewish folklore during the Second World War