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Tolling Bells

Original Title: Glokn klang!

Performer: Daniel Kempin
Lyricist: Mordecai Gebirtig
Composer: Mordecai Gebirtig/Daniel Kempin

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Kraków occupied Poland musicians

Yiddish folk poet and songwriter Mordecai Gebirtig was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1877.

In 1940, he was forced to flee from German-occupied Krakow to nearby Lagiewniki. There, in October 1941, he wrote "Tolling Bells"—in which he envisions the end of persecution and occupation.

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