{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/nz80k27247/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Chłopek-Roztropek—Bam geto-toyer—כלאָפּעק-ראָזטראָפּעק— בײַם געטאָ-טויער"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/005/original/Fortunoff-Logo.png?1549333634","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis piece is composed of two songs from two different testimonies. One is a satirical Polish song, Chłopek-roztropek (A Village Hustler), overheard in the streets of Warsaw by Zalman H. HVT-3638), then a little boy (born in 1929). The song’s general concept is poking fun at uneducated yet street-smart peasants. Zalman did not remember one of the lines but we were able to discover it in a source that contained the full text. As the character is ironically making fun of his girlfriend, pointing out that she dresses too fancy, she fires back, noting that her Wojtek bought a fur coat from a Jew in the ghetto (it was obviously a cheap coat, and he didn’t see anything particularly immoral about this purchase).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWe decided to cut the song’s lyric at that dramatic turn and transition to the next ‘Picture from the Exhibition,’ from a testimony given by Kalman A. (HVT-3869). Kalman was born in 1928, a native of Kaunas, Lithuania. He remembers one verse of a song portraying a strict Polish collaborationist who is guarding the entrance to the ghetto. He suddenly becomes happy when he sees an opportunity to get a cut of what is likely food being illegally smuggled into the ghetto. The characters of both songs represent the same figure—a non-Jewish former neighbor who under new circumstances doesn’t mind benefitting personally from the misery of Jews—the moral opposite of those who risked their lives by hiding their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnother example of predatory behavior towards Jews comes from the testimony of Willy F. (HVT-2844). His family was forced to leave their hometown of Dziołoszyce. In Willy’s own words: “later we learned that there was to be a public auction where the Poles could buy the apartments with everything inside, so this time we knew there was no point in going back…” Then, he remembers, “my parents had a very difficult trip, constantly being attacked by the Poles who wanted their baggage.”\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis piece is composed of two songs from two different testimonies. One is a satirical Polish song, Chłopek-roztropek (A Village Hustler), overheard in the streets of Warsaw by Zalman H. HVT-3638), then a little boy (born in 1929). The song\u0026rsquo;s general concept is poking fun at uneducated yet street-smart peasants. Zalman did not remember one of the lines but we were able to discover it in a source that contained the full text. As the character is ironically making fun of his girlfriend, pointing out that she dresses too fancy, she fires back, noting that her Wojtek bought a fur coat from a Jew in the ghetto (it was obviously a cheap coat, and he didn\u0026rsquo;t see anything particularly immoral about this purchase).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWe decided to cut the song\u0026rsquo;s lyric at that dramatic turn and transition to the next \u0026lsquo;Picture from the Exhibition,\u0026rsquo; from a testimony given by Kalman A. (HVT-3869). Kalman was born in 1928, a native of Kaunas, Lithuania. He remembers one verse of a song portraying a strict Polish collaborationist who is guarding the entrance to the ghetto. He suddenly becomes happy when he sees an opportunity to get a cut of what is likely food being illegally smuggled into the ghetto. The characters of both songs represent the same figure\u0026mdash;a non-Jewish former neighbor who under new circumstances doesn\u0026rsquo;t mind benefitting personally from the misery of Jews\u0026mdash;the moral opposite of those who risked their lives by hiding their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnother example of predatory behavior towards Jews comes from the testimony of Willy F. (HVT-2844). His family was forced to leave their hometown of Dziołoszyce. In Willy\u0026rsquo;s own words: \u0026ldquo;later we learned that there was to be a public auction where the Poles could buy the apartments with everything inside, so this time we knew there was no point in going back\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; Then, he remembers, \u0026ldquo;my parents had a very difficult trip, constantly being attacked by the Poles who wanted their baggage.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"provider":[{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/005/original/Fortunoff-Logo.png?1549333634","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/104/134/small/Fortunoff_Cover_VOL2_LP.jpg?1610640568","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1265/collection_resources/35191/file/104134","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Chlopek_Mix.mp3"]},"duration":225.194,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/104/134/small/Fortunoff_Cover_VOL2_LP.jpg?1610640568","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1265/collection_resources/35191/file/104134/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1265/collection_resources/35191/file/104134/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-fortunoff.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/104/134/original/Chlopek_Mix.mp3?1610640545","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":225.194,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1265/collection_resources/35191/file/104134","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}