Payadora Tango Ensemble - Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango [CD]

Cat. no: 6570361329
Format: CD
Barcode: 657036132924
Release Date: 20 Jan 2023
Genre: World Music

The music of "Silent Tears" is based on poems, testimonies and writings of women who were victims of sexual violence and torture during the Holocaust

Some songs are from a project led by Dr. Paula David, a social worker at a Toronto Jewish care home who helped survivors to process their trauma by writing collective poetry. Others are from Molly Applebaum, a Toronto- based author, who, during her adolescent years, was buried underground in a small wooden box in a barn in Poland during the war. Set to music by a Grammy-nominated (Yiddish Glory) and award-winning team of musicians, the songs on the album tell the story of unimaginable violence as experienced by women and children during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Tracks: Silent Tears (Featuring Aviva Chernick) / Sabinas Letter: Some Of Us Must Survive (Featuring Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk) / A Prayer For Rescue (Featuring Marta Kosiorek) / Buried Underground (Featuring Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk) / Bitter Winter (Featuring Lenka Lichtenberg And Marta Kosiorek) / The Numbers On My Arm (Featuring Aviva Chernick) / A Victim Of Mengele (Featuring Lenka Lichtenberg) / Romani Waltz (Featuring Sergiu Popa) / Donà t Let Us Starve (Featuring Aviva Chernick And Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk)