Related collections: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511264 - Oral history interview with Isaac and Betty Goodfriend and https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib66420 - Goodfriend's memoir:"By fate or by faith : the saga of a survivo" Cantor Goodfriend performed at USHMM and Days of Remembrance events during the 1990s, and likely donated the recordings during one of his visits.
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, vocals, with unidentified musicians Side A Track 1: Ani Maamim (I Believe). (Hebrew) Text: Traditional. Melody attributed to: Azriel David Fastag. Side A Track 2: Varshe (Warsaw). (Yiddish) Words: Shmerke Kaczerginski. Music: Mikhl Gelbart. Side A Track 3: Shtiller, shtiller (Quiet, Quiet). (Yiddish) Words: Shmerke Kaczerginski. Music: Alex Wolkowiski. Side A Track 4: Di zelbe gasn (The Same Streets). (Yiddish) Alternate title: Tsi darf es azoy zayn? (Must it be this way?). Alternate title: Postludium. Words: Kasriel Broydo. Music: Unknown. Side A Track 5: Moishelekh-Shloimelekh. (Yiddish) Alternate title: Unter di poylishe grininke beymelekh (Under the green trees of Poland). Words: Joseph Papernikov; Music: Israel Alter. Side A Track 6: Dos elnte kind (The Lonely Child). (Yiddish) Words: Shmerke Kaczerginski. Music: Yankl Krimski Side B Track 1: In slobodker yeshiva (In the Slobodka Yeshiva). (Yiddish) Words: Avrom Akselrod. Music: Avrom Goldfaden. Side B Track 2: Yisrolik. (Yiddish) Words: Leyb Rozental. Music: Misha Veksler. Side B Track 3: Eibik (Eternity). (Yiddish) Words: H. Leivik. Music: Sholom Secunda. Side B Track 4: Es vet zikh fun tsvaigl tseblien a boym (This Twig Will Bloom Again). (Yiddish) Words: Kasriel Broydo. Music: Yankl Trupianski. Side B Track 5: Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letstn veg (Never Say This is the Last Road). (Yiddish) Words: Hirsh Glik. Music: Daniel and Dmitri Pokrass.
Songs of Martyrdom and Hope