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United Partisans Organization, (FPO) armed resistance movement formally
organized in the Vilna ghetto on 1/21/1942
Shtil, di nacht iz oysgeshternt,
Un der frost hot shtark gebrent.
Tsi gedenkstu vi ich hob dich gelernt
Haltn a shpayer in di hent?
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Silence, and a starry night
Frost crackling, fine as sand.
Remember how I taught you
To hold a gun in your hand?
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by Hirsh Glik who escaped the ghetto, was caught, then escaped the
concentration camp & died in the Baltic woods fighting Germans.
A Treasury of Jewish Folksong, Ruth Rubin; 1950
& Jerry Silverman, Folk Song Encyclopedia
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