The Song Remains – דאָס ליד איז געבליבן

Category: Borekh Olitzki (Baruch Olitzky)

  • Warsaw Themes

    Not for nothing do childish cries / sound against my blue windows all night // In the morning a mother tossed her 6-day old child / on to the corner of Karmelicka Street

  • About Borekh Olitzki (Baruch Olitzky)

    Borekh Olitzki (1907-1941) born in Turzysk (Trisk / Turiis’k), Volhynia, the middle brother in a literary family. Borekh was educated in a kheder (religious school). He lost his father during the First World War, and moved to Ratno (Ratne) where he lived with an uncle. He taught throughout Volhynia, and later in Łódź and Warsaw…