Sabina's Letter The last Yiddish Tango

"Some of Us Must Survive" is based on the book: Buried Words: The Diary of Molly Applebaum.

After Germany invaded Poland, Molly Applebaum's mother Salomea arranged for a farmer to hide Molly and her older cousin Helen in a barn in Dabrowa, Poland. They spend two years buried underground in a wooden box that had a small hole to breathe.

Before Molly went into hiding, she had hoped that her best friend, Sabina Goldman, would join her on that farm. Sabina wrote Molly a letter on September 11, 1942, where she urged Molly to do whatever was humanly possible to survive. Sabina explained that she had to remain with her parents who weren't in good health.

Later that week, Sabina was murdered.

"Sabina's Letter: Some of Us Must Survive"

Words: Molly Applebaum with Dan Rosenberg
Yiddish Translation: Aleksander Fisz
Music: Artur Gold (1897-1943)
Artur Gold was murdered in the Treblinka Death Camp
Arranged by Drew Jurecka

Performed by Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk and the Payadora Tango Ensemble

Special thanks to Molly Applebaum and her family, including her daughter Sharon Wrock for their help in this project.

For more information, read Buried Words: The Diary of Molly Applebaum

Thanks to Jodi Speigel, Arielle Berger and the Azreili Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs

Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk - Vocals
Rebekah Wolkstein - Violin
Drew Jurecka - Bandoneon
Robert Horvath - Piano
Joseph Phillips - Double bass

Dan Rosenberg - Executive producer

Drew Jurecka - Music Producer, arranger, engineer, mixing
Marcin Morawicki - Videographer
Ivan Ceresnjes and Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk - Video editors

Professor Anna Shternshis - Project consultant

Recorded at Small Dog Sound Music Studio in Toronto

We would like to thank The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Workmen's Circle Foundation for their generous support of this project