Silent Tears: Last Yiddish Tango

Silent Tears: Last Yiddish Tango The outstanding Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango sets to music poetry, testimonies and writings from women who suffered and survived the horrors of the Holocaust.
Dr. Paula David, a social worker at a Toronto Jewish care home launched a poetry programme for survivors to help process the trauma caused by such brutalities as violence of every degree, medical experimentation and forcible sterilisation. One example gives a measure. One work based on a Polish Shoah survivor, Molly Applebaum’s memoir, Buried Words tells how, as a child, she was buried underground on a farm in Dąbrowa in a box with only a small hole to breathe through. ‘Silent Tears is both a warning and a hope, and it is an impressive testimony to Jewish culture as well as to the German past and guilt.’ - The jury statement for this well-deserved RUTH award.

Photo: Peter Yuan