Commentary by Norah Friede on unidentified Czech resistance song

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Date recorded: 1949
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified; Performer: Lomax, Alan; Performer: Friede, Norah; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
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Genre: interview/commentary
Culture: Czech
Instruments: voice
Location: New York City, New York, United States
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T21
Track Number: 7
Archive ID: T21R07
Note: Norah Friede explains that the Czech resistance song is from the musical Svet Za Mrizemi written in 1933 by Jan Werich and Jiri Voskovec, composed by Jaroslav Ježek. Prisoners in his concentration camp sang this song for inspiration. The German guards didn't understand it, and Friede remembers singing the Czech national anthem and telling the guard it was a Russian song.
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Belongs to: New York City 1949
About the session: A brief session of recordings by (what appears to be in Lomax's handwriting) Norah Friede, a Czech partisan and survivor of Dachau.
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