Yankele Hershkowitz

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Yankele Hershkowitz was a street singer during the Holocaust in the Łódź Ghetto.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Adler, Eliyana R. (2006-07-12). "No Raisins, No Almonds: Singing as Spiritual Resistance to the Holocaust". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 24 (4): 50–66. doi:10.1353/sho.2006.0078. ISSN 1534-5165.
^ ORT, World. "Music and the Holocaust". holocaustmusic.ort.org. Retrieved 2018-06-28.

External links

A song by Yankele Hershkowitz on Yad Vashem website