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Sat, April 14
TIM HAZEL
RON CODEN
SHOW
Songs of anguish — and hope
show
a different face of the Holocaust.
the Jewish people. "We Live Forever"
was written in 1943 for a cabaret in
the Vilna Ghetto. According to
Silverman, SS soldiers frequented the
ifelong folk-guitarist Jerry
cabaret in their daily rounds.
Silverman grew up in a tra-
"Did the SS enjoy the perform-
dition of activism. From the
ance?" Silverman asked. "We will
time he first picked up a
never know. What we do know is that
guitar, he's been singing songs with
1943 was the year of the liquidation of
social significance.
the Vilna Ghetto."
The songs the musicologist/per-
With "Westerbork Serenade,"
former shared \vial his audience as part
Silverman's performance turned to
of the University of Michigan Hillel's
Western Europe. A jazzy love song writ-
22nd Annual Conference on the
ten by Johnny and
Holocaust on March
Jones, two popular
20 were no exception.
Dutch entertainers
Silverman per-
imprisoned in the
formed portions from
Westerbork internment
his book, The Undying
camp, "Serenade" was
Flame, which archives
such a hit with the
110 songs in 16 lan-
camp officials that the
guages that trace the
duo were sent to
path of the human
Amsterdam to record it.
experience surround-
Although they
ing the Holocaust.
could have escaped
"One way to look at
while in Amsterdam,
it," Silverman said, "is
the men returned to
that Holocaust songs
the camp to be united
are the ultimate
with their wives. They
protest songs.
He performs por-
Jero, Silverman: "Holocaust songs were deported to the
death camps in the
tions of the archive
are the ultimate protest songs."
same transport that
alona b with English
carried Anne Frank.
translations — in \Jen-
While
Johnny
and Jones did not
ues across the country. Many of ballads
survive the war, their recording did.
and songs had never been heard or
Silverman played a scratchy version of
translated since they were first sung dur-
their Amsterdam performance for the
ing the war years.
audience at U-M Hillel. He said he is
Some of the first songs composed in
continuously amazed by how many
the Holocaust era, explained
songs survived in full, and by the coin-
Silverman, were written "far from the
cidences he continuously encounters
shreds," in lagers, German political
while collecting them.
prisons. Many were composed as part
"It's just amazing how these things
of songwriting competitions. The
interlock — suddenly the floodgates
German guards offered participants
open and you have a half dozen new
awards of 10 marks or a ration of ciga-
songs," he notes. During one recent per-
rettes for each winning song.
formance at the Anne Frank Society in
As the title of the first part of his per-
New York, a man told Silverman Johnny
formance, "The Gathering Storm," sug-
and Jones performed at his bar mitzvah.
gests, surviving melodies tell of the hor-
Silverman's performance ended with
ror to come. The chorus of "Peat Bog
a song written by the daughter of
Soldiers," sung in Silverman's steady
Holocaust survivors. Musical reflec-
voice and accompanied by acoustic gui-
tions on the Holocaust, he said, did
tar, had a haunting resonance:
not end in 1945.
"Buchenwald, I can't forget thee, never."
By concluding the evening with a
Later songs echo the desperation of
contemporary song, he reminded the
Shiri Bilik, of Commerce Township, is a
audience that the collective memory of
the tragedy continues to inspire song-
junior in the Residential College at
writers worldwide.
University of Michigan.
Sat, APRIL 21
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