Hirsh Glick

After the German assault on the Soviet Union in 1941, Hirsh Glick was imprisoned in the Weiße Wache concentration camp and later transferred to the Vilna Ghetto.

In 1943 he wrote his most famous work, the song Zog nit keynmol, az du geyst dem letstn veg (זאג ניט קיינמאל, אז דו גייסט דעם לעצטן וועג) to the music of Dmitry Pokrass (1899-1978), which became the anthem of the Jewish partisan movement, and Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt.

He was inspired to write this work by news that arrived of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Glick managed to flee when the Vilna Ghetto was being liquidated in October 1943, but got captured.

He was never heard from again, and was presumed captured and executed by the Nazis (reportedly in August 1944).