Booklet of songs from the Ghetto in Yiddish and Hebrew

An old booklet from Poland filled with sad lines from the pen of an anonymous poet by R. Yosef Cohen from Tel Aviv, a survivor of the war. The identify of the poet is unknown, but it is possible that Rav Cohen heard them from an intermediate source (there are no copies of these songs elsewhere). One song, “Mama, Mama” is written in Yiddish, and describes the sad situation in the ghetto, the survival and the life there, the sacrifice of a Jewish mother to give food to her children in the difficult conditions and the last meal…and the difficult separation. An additional song, “Shir Yerushalayim”, in Hebrew, expresses strong yearning for the Holy City with expressions of exile. An additional song in Yiddish is filled with belief and strength and is called Shomer Yisrael. Another song describes the burning of the town by Nazis. This is a living testimony of the period, written in Israel on a Polish notebook. 20x15.5cm, 9 written pages. No rear binding, at the end are pages which had been pulled out.