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Warpaint - "From California to Mexico, a Rare and Intimate Performance" (December, 2020)

 

Whirlwinds of danger are raging around us,
O'erwhelming forces of darkness assail

"El Malei Rachamim" is a funeral prayer used by the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The chazzan recites it, for the ascension of the souls of the dead, during the funeral, going up to the grave of the departed, remembrance days, and other occasions on which the memory of the dead is recalled.

Before Shalom Katz was to be executed in Auschwitz in 1941 he asked for permission to sing the hymn El male Rahamim (God full of compassion). Deeply moved by the magnificence, emotional depth and intensity of the music, the Nazi officer on duty allowed Shlomo Katz to escape.