2 Es Brent - Dudu Fisher

Chaim Topol, internationally acclaimed performer, introduces the 2011 March of the Living Yom Hashoah Ceremony in Birkenau. Dudu Fisher then performs Es Brent written by Mordechai Gebirtig.

Mordechai Gebirtig, born in Krakow in 1877, was a carpenter, but was known as
the "troubadour of the Jewish people." Gebirtig wrote Es Brent (It Burns) in response to a
1936 pogrom in the Polish town of Przytyk, hoping its message would encourage Jews to resist the rising tide of anti-semitic violence. During the war
Es Brent was sung throughout the ghettos in Poland, and Krakow's underground Jewish resistance adopted Es Brent as its anthem. In June 1942, Gebirtig was murdered by German soldiers while refusing to comply with a deportation order.

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• Es brent
• March of the Living
• Dudu Fisher
• Yiddish Holocaust songs

[alika207]

By the way, who is playing piano?

[alika207]

Amazing!