Baym geto toyerl By the Ghetto Gate

Baym geto toyerl By the Ghetto Gate 

A topical song about food smuggling in the Kovno ghetto, By the Ghetto Gate draws on the melody of the much-loved"Yiddish alphabet song" Oyfn pripetshik (At the Hearth). Lyricist Avrom Akselrod, a refugee who had fled Poland at the start of World War II, wrote a number of parodic verses in the ghetto. He was killed in July 1944, when German militiamen set fire to his underground hiding place. 

Performed by an unknown singer, Bavarian displaced persons camp, ca. 1946