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Arbetlose Marsch [Song of the Unemployed] was written and composed by Mordechai Gebirtig a Yiddish poet and singer who made his living as a carpenter. He belonged to the Jewish Social Democratic Party, a political party in Galicia which merged in to the Jewish Labour Bund after WW 1. Like many other Polish Jews, he was murdered by the Nazis in the Kraków Ghetto on the infamous "Bloody Thursday" of June 4, 1942

The singer is Ernst Busch a lifetime communist who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. In 1937 he joined the International Brigades to fight against the Nationalists in Spain. He was interned in Belgium during German occupation and later imprisonmed in Camp Gurs where he was freed by the Soviets in 1945. In the end he settled in the GDR where he created his own record label.