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CD 3, Tracks 30-31
| 30) | Orchestral | |
| introduction | ||
| I cannot remember everything. I must have been unconscious | ||
| most of the time; I remember only the grandiose moment when | ||
| French | they all started to sing, as if prearranged, the old prayer they | |
| horn, pp | had neglected for so many years--the forgotten creed! | |
| But I have no recollection how I got underground to live | ||
| in the sewers of Warsaw so long a time. | ||
| The day began as usual. Reveille when it still was dark--get | ||
| out whether you slept or whether worries kept you awake the | ||
| whole night: you had been separated from your children, from your | ||
| wife, from your parents, you don't know what happened to them; | ||
| how could you sleep? | ||
| They shouted again: "Get out! The sergeant will be furious!" | ||
| They came out; some very slow, the old ones, the sick men, some | ||
| with nervous agility. They fear the sergeant. They hurry as much | ||
| as they can. In vain! Much too much noise, much too much | ||
| commotion and not fast enough! | ||
| The Feldwebel shouts: "Achtung! Still gestanden! Na wird's | ||
| mal, oder soll ich mit dem Gewehrkolben nachhelfen? Na jut; | ||
| wenn Ihr's durchaus haben wollt!" ("Attention! Stand still! How | ||
| about it, or should I help you along with the butt of my rifle? Oh | ||
| well, if you really want to have it!") | ||
| The sergeant and his subordinates hit everyone: young or old, | ||
| strong or sick, guilty or innocent--it was painful to hear the | ||
| groaning and moaning. | ||
| I heard it though I had been hit very hard, so hard that I could | ||
| not help falling down. We all on the ground who could not stand | ||
| up were then beaten over the head. | ||
| I must have been unconscious. The next thing I knew was a | ||
| soldier saying, "They are all dead!" Whereupon the sergeant | ||
| ordered to do away with us. | ||
| There I lay aside half conscious. It had become very still--fear | ||
| and pain--Then I heard the sergeant shouting: "Abzählen!" | ||
| ("Count off!") | ||
| 31) | They started slowly, and irregularly: One, two, three, four, | |
| "Achtung." The sergeant shouted again: "Rascher! Nochmals von | ||
| vorn anfangen! In einer Minute will ich wissen wieviele ich zur | ||
| I Gaskammer abliefere! Abzählen!" ("Faster! Once more, | ||
| start from the beginning! In one minute I want to know how many | ||
| I am going to send off to the gas chamber! Count off!") | ||
| Accelerando, | They began again, first slowly: one, two, three, four, became | |
| crescendo. | faster and faster, so fast that it finally sounded like a stampede | |
| of wild horses, and all of a sudden, in the middle of it, they began | ||
| singing the Shema Yisroel. | ||
| Chorus. | Shema Yisroel Adonoy elohenoo Adonoy ehod. Veohavto es | |
| Adonoy eloheho behol levoveho oovehol nafsheho oovehol | ||
| Vehoyoo haddevoreem hoelleh asher onohee metsavveho | ||
| hayyom al levoveho. Veshinnantom levoneho vedibbarto bom | ||
| beshivteho beveteho ooveleyteho baddereh ooveshohbeho | ||
| oovekoomeho. ("Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is | ||
| One! And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, | ||
| and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, | ||
| which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart. And thou shalt | ||
| teach them diligently unto thy children, and speak of them when | ||
| thou sittest in thy house, and when thou goest on the way , and | ||
| when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." [Deuteronomy 6:4-9]) |