lullaby

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We know of this lullaby because Liebeskind, who was later killed at Sachsenhausen, transmitted the song there to Alexander Kulisiewicz, a Polish musician and political prisoner who had an eidetic memory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In Auschwitz last year, he was playing a lullaby on the piano, composed by Adam Kopycinski, a brilliant Polish musician who was the conductor of the Auschwitz Orchestra and had performed for Höss.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Soundtracking it is a snippet of “Sueña Lindo, Corazón,” a tender, stripped-down folk lullaby for a wounded heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

I watch it when I’m getting ready in the morning, and it’s kind of my lullaby when I go to bed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

The island rocked gently as he moved farther and farther away from it, the chuckling of the water underneath the boat and the wooden creaking of the oarlocks an unrhythmic lullaby.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt