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The Warsaw Children’s Choir (1946)

Now we shift scenes again. It was Christmas Eve, 1946. World War II had ended, but the city of Warsaw lay in ruins—bombed-out buildings, shattered streets, burned timbers. The Philharmonic gathered a children’s choir made up almost entirely of orphans—children who had lost everything. As the choir began to sing “O Come All Ye Faithful” in the ruins, soldiers lowered their weapons. Mothers wept. Strangers embraced. One witness said: “It was as if God placed His hand over the ruins and breathed peace.”

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