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Dedicated to ALL refugees, dedicated to all Holocaust survivors, dedicated to all who are suffering injustice and violence. This 95-year-young Holocaust survivor hero tells her story in a powerful song to which she wrote the lyrics. To honor her Jewish heritage and to honor the current refugee crisis that affects mostly Muslims, we used both a klezmer clarinet played by the brilliant Nuno Antunes (from Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof") and the oud (Arabic lute) played by NYU professor Pedro H. da Silva. Virtuoso piano by the incomparable Lucía Caruso, who wrote the music with Pedro.

Most people forget that the US refused thousands of Jewish refugees during WWII, including Anne Frank and her family. Inge Ginsberg is alive today because Switzerland opened her arms to her. Let's not keep making the same mistakes. Let's open our arms and hearts to peaceful refugees who are fleeing terror, misery and death in their lands. Let's help the less fortunate. It's what the great leaders of all faiths have always preached – this is what is taught by Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, etc., and yes, Islam.

The Holy Qur'an 8.74:
And (as for) those who believed and fled and struggled hard in Allah's way, and those who gave shelter and helped, these are the believers truly; they shall have forgiveness and honorable provision.

Leviticus 19:33-34 and 24:22:
When the alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

And for those who insist in making distinctions between the three sister Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – and pitting them against each other, this is what the holy Qur'an has to say about that:

2:136
Say, [O believers], "We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him."

To peace, to justice, to refugees, to immigrants, we dedicate this video.

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Lyrics by Inge Ginsberg, music by Pedro H. da Silva and Lucía Caruso. Copyright 2017.

Director: Nick Grau
Executive producers: Pedro H. da Silva, Inge Ginsberg
Producers: Allison Carter, Jon Reed, Ted Day
Vocals: Inge Ginsberg
Guitars, bass, programming, music production: Pedro H. da Silva
Piano: Lucia Caruso
Drums: Alex Preston Rasmussen
Clarinet: Nuno Antunes

Editor: Xander Robin
Director of photography:
Production assistant: Michael Nitting


Special thanks to Robert Edwards, Ferne Pearlstein, Michael Nitting, Ellen Hardcastle, Michael Wyttenbach, Carlos Coco Best for lending his wonderful guitar,
and a very special thanks to Godin Guitars for giving us their amazing multiOud.

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Lyrics:

Verse 1:

I survived the Holocaust
But the biggest loss
Was my mother tongue
Vienna, where I belonged
Turned into a nightmare
That’s why
I never went back there

My four young cousins
Went up in a cloud of smoke
Our granny went with them
To give the illusion of hope

Chorus:

All my life I fought for freedom and peace
If I’m strong, evil gets weak
It still attacks
But I fight back
And I’m still here
I’m still here


Verse 2:

I fought for freedom in World War II
I smuggled arms to the partisans
There was nothing I wouldn’t do
To fight the Nazis as a young jew

I love life
Though I'm old
I laughed in spite
Hunger and cold
I survived
Through trouble and strife
I am strongest
when I cling to life


Chorus:

All my life I fought for freedom and peace
If I’m strong, evil gets weak
It still attacks
But I fight back
And I’m still here
I’m still here

All my life I fought for freedom and peace
If I’m strong, evil gets weak
It still attacks
But I fight back
Don’t waste your tears
Cause I’m still here

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