In 1942, a young teacher and poet of the Vilna ghetto took into her home a baby who had been left homeless after its parents had been deported to a death camp. Soothing the child to sleep, she conceived the text to Dremlen Feygl, imagining the happiness that once surreounded the cradle of the now-motherless and -fatherless child. She then set her lyrics to an existing tune by the Russian-Jewish composer Leyb Yampolsky.