Yiddish Album Top-Rated in Europe

The music album “Silent Tears”, just released earlier this year, has won the highest rating on World Music Charts Europe at the beginning of April 2023. The chart was compiled by major national broadcasters including the BBC, RFI France, ORF Austria and German Public Radio.

The Silent Tears project began when Dr. Paula David launched a poetry program to help Holocaust survivors at Toronto’s Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care deal with long term trauma from horrific crimes such as sexual violence, human experimentation and forced sterilization. The album also includes five works based on Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum’s diary and memoir entitled “Buried Words”. As a child, to hide from the Nazis, she was buried underground in a terribly cold and filthy box full of insects.

The performers are the Payadora Tango Ensemble (Toronto), Olga (Avigail) Mieleszczuk, Lenka Lichtenberg, Aviva Chernick, Marta Kosiorek and other renowned musicians.