In August 1945, as World War II was drawing to a close, a 10-year-old Jewish orphan named Valya Roytlender sang a song called "My Mother's Grave" to a Soviet ethnomusicologist in Bratslav, Ukraine.

5 Wartime-Era Songs from WWII. By. Tina Benitez-Eves. November 5, 2023 9:30 am ... Originally recorded and released in 1939 as an instrumental and later set to lyrics, ...

So there's a song, for instance, about how her "apron goes higher" -- that is, she's pregnant. Other songs extol delicious pastries but make clear that pastry is not what they're singing about at all.

Lyrics, translated from Italian, explain the very moment when jingoism fails; the song hovers in that state between realizing something is wrong and actually doing something about it ...

WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran Vincent Speranza salutes the U.S. flag at the 17th Airborne Division Memorial in Bertogne, Belgium, during a ceremony to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the ...

WWII VE Day Song. 205 Comments. On the 8th May 1945 the Nazis surrendered and victory in Europe was declared. Sadly millions had died, ...

Yiddish Glory is a newly recorded album of Jewish folk songs, documented during World War II but thought lost for decades, that matches their of-the-moment ... that matches their of-the-moment lyrics ...