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These hidden songs survived the Holocaust – and helped singers to endure their own survival

By Jan Lanicek, Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW Sydney
In the renowned Holocaust documentary, Shoah (1985), former SS guard Franz Suchomel sings a song prisoners had to perform in the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. After finishing the last line, he chillingly asks the director, Claude Lanzmann: “Satisfied? That’s unique. No Jew knows that today!”

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