text:  The song Auschwitz at the Hikerbaro, there is a large building in Auschwitz that alone tells us that the song or at least the text was composed in Auschwitz in the camp. Petra Gelbart, Romani ethnomusicologist. It was sung by various people in the camp already in various versions that they brought back with them. There was very few who survived. It was a form of self-expression. It was a form of remembering what had happened and really telling these stories