Wednesday 10 May 2017

LEVIT

LEVIT
          A song of his, entitled “Fantserke” (meaning the concentration camp H. K. P. [Heereskraftpark, or Army Motor Park, a slave labor camp in Vilna], reported by Sender Vaysman, is included in Shmerke Katsherginski’s Lider fun di getos un lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps).  He was killed in one of the German camps.  Further information remains unknown.

Source: Shmerke Katsherginski, Lider fun di getos un lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948), pp. 185-86.
Yankev Kahan


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