The sufferings of Jews under the Nazi regime were reflected in their music and musical life. Music offered women and men interned in ghettos and camps a way to express their humanity in inhuman conditions, to escape, revolt and cry for freedom. The act of singing is a human act of artistic performance that creates another world for the singer and the audience, writes Dr. Gila Flam, Director of the Sound Archives at Israel's National Library. "Cry, My Heart, Cry," the second volume of the Fortunoff Video Archive's Songs from Testimonies project, features 13 new songs performed by Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble and Sasha Lurje. These songs were originally sung by survivors Fortunoff Archive testimonies in three languages: Yiddish, Polish and French. The widely diverse compositions presented on the album recreate a multidimensional image of people's lives and the multiple identities they carried. 001. In Dinaverke 002. Dem Rebns Shikse 003. A Dermonung Funem Appellplatz 004. Kidush Hashem 005. A Valts 006. Shray, Hertsale, Shray 007. Une Fleur Au Chapeau 008. Shtubeneltsto 009. Chlopek-Roztropek 010. Hej Tam Na Gorce 011. Siekiera, Motyka 012. W Saskim Ogrodzie 013. Himlen, o Himlen

Intricately and lovingly presented album of music assembled from video testimonials of Holocaust survivors. "The widely diverse compositions presented on the album recreate a multidimensional image of people's lives and the multiple identities they carried - as Jews by faith and roots, and as European citizens (Poles, Germans, Russians) by culture." 1. DOINA - BADKHEN'S SONG 2. POLISH ARMY SONGS 3. TRAYB DI KHVALYES (DRIVE YOUR WAVES) 4. WALC FRANCOIS 5. W POClAGU JEST TLOK (CROWDED TRAIN) 6. KADIMA (FORWARD) 7. IN DEM KLEIN EM DORF, IN SMILTSCHENZI (IN THE TINY TOWN OF SMILTSCHENZI) 8. TUCHI NAD BUDYSHCHEM (THE CLOUDS GATHERED OVER BUDYSHCHE) 9. STEPAN BLONDIN (STEPAN THE BLOND) 10. PROSCHAI, GOROD NASH RODIMYI (FAREWELL, OUR NATIVE CITY) 11. PLASZOW INMATES' SONG 12. TREBLINKA SONG OF HOPE 13. ANI MA'AMIN (I BELIEVE)