How Singing for Josef Kramer in Bergen-Belsen Saved My Life

Moshe Kraus, Holocaust survivor and first chief cantor of the Israel Defense Forces, describes how his family nearly escaped the Holocaust, and how his singing saved him in Bergen-Belsen.
To see the full interview and learn more about the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, visit: www.yiddishboo...

[@giri.goyo_yt]

Thank you for preserving and sharing Moshe’s story. Music breaks down all boundaries. He is right to say there is no explanation.

[@niakoch9390]

Thankyou for your testimony, ich bin ergriffen. Shalom!

[@myword1000]

"It was real in my mind..."

[@mkmr6957]

what language is he speaking? as a german i understand partly

[@TheVeraciety]

It’s called Yiddish (or “Jewish”). Depending on where it was spoken, it had features of late medieval southern German grammar and practical words, a good mix of Hebrew, and some Slavic thrown in here and there. It largely died with most of those lost during the Holocaust.

[@birgitlohberg3131]

Thx for surviving!

[@Mike-01234]

At least the victims of Kramer got some justice when he was hanged by the British in 1946 many got away never were brought to justice for their crimes.

[@carlosadaokessler4002]

Traduçao

[@hinaynihorvath3926]

that mindless beast of belsen crying?? i can't believe it this poor Jewish man's singing was wasted on that freak!!! God rest this man's family murdered at shoah my love to this sweet Jewish man 🇮🇱