Hatikva (The Hope) From Bergen Belson to Israel

To fully appreciate the Jewish refusal to abandon "The Hope" or in Hebrew "Hatikva," You must listen to this recently discovered recording of Jewish prisoners in Bergen Belsen singing Hatkiva on the first Shabbat after hearing of liberation, April 20, 1945. The introduction is by the BBC. The Lyrics are:

As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And forward to the East
To Zion, an eye looks

Our hope will not be lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.