“Amid Falling Walls” features Yiddish songs by those who faced Nazi persecution, while “The Gardens of Anuncia” is a musical about the early life of choreographer Graciela Daniele.
Few of the hundreds of songs in the antifascist repertoire became as popular as the “Song of the Peat Bog Soldiers,” written 90 years ago at the Börgermoor concentration camp. This is its history. The rise of German fascism prompted an impressive musical culture directed against it.
For four weeks, from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.