Papirosn: The Yiddish cigarette song and its Holocaust adaptations
Herman Yablokoff, a member of the Yiddish theatre active in Lithuania and Poland after World War I, wrote the song “Papirosn” (“Cigarettes”) in the 1920s. He was inspired by children who sold cigarettes on the streets to survive, recalling his own childhood in Grodno, where he had tried the same. The song later became the
