A Yiddish Poet's Elegy for His Sister, Lost to Treblinka, Lives On in Song

Khaye Heller perished in the Treblinka concentration camp during the Holocaust, one of millions killed in Nazi extermination camps.

In the long aftermath of the Holocaust, a Yiddish poet named Binem Heller found the only form of preservation available to him — language — and used it to hold his sister Khaye in place against the erasure of Treblinka. His poem, spare and domestic, mourns not a death but a life: a girl singing lullabies to small children on ordinary evenings. Decades later, singer Chava Alberstein and The Klezmatics set those words to music, and the elegy crossed into ears and hearts that had never known Yiddish, proving once more that grief, when shaped with enough care, refuses to stay within the borders of

A Yiddish Poet's Elegy for His Sister, Lost to Treblinka, Lives On in Song

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