A trove of Holocaust-era Yiddish songs recorded by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky survived decades of censorship and near disappearance. Now, a new album revives the voices of Jews in Ukrainian ghettos, revealing not only their suffering, but also the stories they imagined to survive

The story emerged from 263 songs recorded in 1944 by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky from Ukrainian Jews newly freed from Romanian occupation in 1944.

A trove of Holocaust-era Yiddish songs recorded by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky survived decades of censorship and near disappearance. Now, a new album…