They wanted the World to hear their voice

This is something I stumbled across quite a while ago. I'm certainly not the first to discover and mention it in a blog post - when trying to find the recording again, I found an archived mention at Harry's Place over a year ago, but it came into my mind today and it bears repetition.

It's from a BBC radio report made by Patrick Gordon Walker after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, which concludes with surviving inmates singing the Zionist anthem, Hatikva (The Hope). Their collective experience of of grief and horror can hardly be imagined, so to hear the singing with any knowledge of the context is almost unbearably poignant. Listen to this and weep.