THE SHOAH (I-III)
– Songs in the Face of Death
This three-part series is largely structured around the Yiddish songs of the Holocaust. Many of them were written and composed by the victims during the war and as the atrocities unfolded, These songs, and others which fit their experience, were sung in that most hopeless of times by people awaiting their fate. A few were sung afterward in the ruins, or later, in remembrance.
Some of the tapestries have elements woven with a shiny, metallic thread in copper, brass, silver, and gold. They symbolize God’s own Creation which was the constant and beautiful background to the brutality, murder, despair, and sadness. A witness who could not testify.
Maybe with these songs a sound from the Shoah will linger.
