Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (2003) 269-278
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
Presents the text of the Polish parody song "Heil, Sachsenhausen" and the story of how it was composed. The song was written by a Polish political prisoner of Sachsenhausen, Aleksander Kulisiewicz, and was based on the prewar cabaret song "Madagaskar", which was composed ca. 1937 by two Jews as a satiric response to a plan to resettle the Jews of Poland on the island of Madagascar. Kulisiewicz heard "Madagaskar" for the first time in the camp. Perceiving the plight of Poles at the hands of Germans as similar to the plight of Jews at the hands of Poles, he used the song, which derided nationalism, for a new song, deriding another kind of nationalism. Kulisiewicz's camp experiences caused him to empathize with the Jews and rid him of the antisemitism he had harbored before the war.
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