| Songs of the Vilna Ghetto | |
| Type: | Compilation album |
| Artist: | Various artists |
| Cover: | Songs of the Vilna Ghetto.jpg |
| Released: | 1969[1] |
| Genre: | Jewish music |
| Language: | Yiddish |
| Label: | CBS Records |
Songs of the Vilna Ghetto is a compilation LP record featuring twelve Yiddish songs from World War II era. The songs were composed by the inmates of the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust and are sung by Nechama Hendel, Chava Alberstein, and Shimon Israeli with accompaniment from the CBS Israel Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Gil Aldema. The album contains an 8-page booklet with lyrics in the Yiddish language, photographs from the ghetto, and historical information about the songs in English. According to the liner notes, the recording "was prepared by the Yitzhak Kalznelson House of the Ghetto Fighters, at Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel, in co-operation with the Vilna Organisation [sic] of Haifa."
| Song | English translation | Length | Performer | Lyrics by | Notes | ||
| 1 | "Vilna" | Vilnius | Efraim-Leyb Wolfson (1870–1946) | From the early 1930s. Composer Alexander Olshanetsky. | |||
| 2 | "Partizaner Lied" | Partisan Song | Shimon Israeli with CBS Israel Orchestra | ||||
| 3 | "Vig-Lied" | Lullaby | Lea Rudnitski | ||||
| 4 | "Farvos iz Der Himmel" | Why Are The Heavens | Choir | L. Ofeski | |||
| 5 | "Ich Beink Aheim" | I Long for Home | Helena Hendel | Leyb Rozental (1916–1945) | |||
| 6 | "Yugent Hymn" | Youth Hymn | Choir | Dedicated to the youth club of the ghetto. Features upbeat rhythm and encouraging lyrics. | |||
| 7 | "Unter Deine Veisse Shtern" | Under Your White Stars | Helena Hendel and Choir | ||||
| 8 | "Itzik Wittenberg" | Shimon Israeli | Set to a Russian melody. About arrest and murder of Yitzhak Wittenberg in July 1943. | ||||
| 9 | "Shtiller, Shtiller (Ponar - Lullaby)" | Quiet, Quiet | Chava Alberstein | Composer Alexander Wolkovsky. A lullaby by a mother to her son about the Ponary massacre. | |||
| 10 | "Tsu Eins, Zwei, Drei!" | One, Two, Three! | Choir | Leyb Rozental | |||
| 11 | "Freeling" | Spring | Chava Alberstein with CBS Israel Orchestra | Set to a tango melody. Written following the death of Kaczerginski's wife, Barbara Kaufman (Kaczerginski), in April 1943. | |||
| 12 | "Zog Nit Kein Mol" | Never Say | Shimon Israeli and Choir with CBS Israel Orchestra | Composer Dmitry Pokrass |