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

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par 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!”

More than 30 years before, in 1945,…

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