We are honoured to host the launch of Joseph Toltz and Anna Boucher's Out of the Depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs.

In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable project. While documenting the experiences of Jewish refugees, they began to collect songs composed and sung in the Nazi camps and ghettos. The resulting book, Mima'amakim (Out of the depths), was published in a short run of 500 copies. Today, only a handful survive. Out of the Depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs presents the contents of this extraordinary document for a new generation of readers.

Described by the original editor, Yehuda Eismann, as a 'memorial stone for Polish Jewry', the songbook is a timeless document of a people's despair, hope and strength.

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