We Will Outlive Them
In 1939, a group of Hasidic Jews in Lublin, Poland were lined up against a barbed wire fence by SS soldiers. The sadistic commandant then ordered them to sing themselves to their own deaths. One of the men began to improvise a tune: 鈥淢ir veln zey iberlebn, iberlebn, iberlebn鈥 鈥 鈥淲e will outlive them鈥 he sang over and over. Witness reports say that the song spread quickly through the group, who died dancing and singing those words.
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