RIKLE GLEZER

RIKLE GLEZER (b. December 17, 1924)

            She was a young woman in the Vilna ghetto.  She broke free of the ghetto during a deportation to join the partisans in the woods, and took with her the manuscripts of her songs: “Es iz geven a zumertog” (It was a summer day), “Gro un fintster iz in geto” (It is gray and dark in the ghetto), “Di letste nakht” (The last night), “Du, geto mayn” (You, my ghetto), “Der yidisher gelekhter” (Jewish laughter), and “Ikh bin fray” (I’m free), among others.  She survived the Nazi occupation.  Her biography and subsequent career remain unknown.

Source: Sh. Katsherginski, Lider fun di getos un lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948), pp. 7, 8, 10, 11, 79-81, 356.