How a Hidden Songbook Survived the Holocaust 0.5%
Quillette - By Joseph Toltz, Anna Boucher - 7/8/2026, 1:09 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 17.4% - Negativity Bias 10% - Halo Effect 6%
In the spring of 1945, weeks after liberation, a Jewish editor named Yehuda Eismann sat in a Bucharest office and compiled a small pamphlet of songs composed in the Nazi camps and ghettos of occupied Poland. He printed five hundred copies, but almost all were lost. One survived in a Sydney cupboard for decades, undisturbed, until it was... more