Jewish voice in the ghettos and concentration camps: verbal expression under Nazi oppression.

This volume is a unique collection of poems, jokes, popular expressions, proverbs, slogans, common curses, secret codes and more devised by Jews in the camps and ghettos as a way of coping with the harsh reality. The terms and sayings reflect the attitudes toward the Nazi oppressors and their collaborators and demonstrate the resilience of the jewish spirit against all odds.