Yom HaShoah…
Ilse Weber was a Czech poet who published several books of fairy tales before being interned at Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1942. There, she began to compose songs, which she sang in the camp’s children’s hospital. Like so many artists who were exploited for propaganda purposes, Weber was later transported to Auschwitz, where she and her son were killed in 1944. It’s said that she sang her lullaby, “Wiegala,” as she voluntarily accompanied children to the gas chamber.
The final lines read:
Viegala, viegala, vill,
Now is the world so still!
No sound disturbs
the sweet calm.
Sleep, my little child,
Sleep too.
Viegala, viegala, vill,
How the world is so still!
Here it is in three different versions:
Sung by Anne-Sophie von Otter
In an arrangement for violin, guitar and double bass
For chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB43Sj5Y6R0