Siblings killed in blaze recorded moving song before death

The children who perished in a horrific Brooklyn house fire recorded a song about standing strong in the face of death just two weeks earlier.

“Many tears have fallen, many years we’re calling/Please, no more,” the Sassoon children sing, using the now-poignant lyrics of “Cry No More,” a song by popular Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey.

The song decries the violence and tragedy of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and rejoices in the coming Redemption.

But when sung by the children, seven of whom would die in the flames, the lyrics carry an unbearable prescience.

“Many brokenhearted, friends lost and departed/Please, no more,” they sing.

The youngest of the children sing touchingly off-key; the older ones sing with heartfelt fervor.

Yaakob, 5, Sara, 6, Moshe, 8, Yehoshua, 10, Rivkah, 11, David, 12, and Eliane, 16, all died in the Shabbas-morning inferno on Bedford Avenue in Midwood.

Only one sibling survived, Siporah, 15 — by jumping from the home’s second floor with her mother, Gayle Sassoon, 45.

Mother and daughter remain in separate hospitals, in The Bronx and Staten Island.

The father, Gabriel, was away at a conference the night of the fire. He is scheduled to return early Thursday from Israel, where the victims were buried.

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The seven Sassoon siblings are mourned in Israel while their bodies are carried to their graves.Reuters

Gabriel Sassoon delivers a eulogy before the burial of his children.Reuters

The seven Sassoon family coffins are laid to rest in Israel on Monday. — Eli Mandelbaum

The coffins of Sassoon family members are being brought to a plane en route to Israel. — The seven Sassoon family coffins are brought to a plane headed to Israel, where they will be buried in Jerusalem’s Har HaMenuchot Cemetery.Reuven Fenton

Gabriel Sassoon (center, riding in cart) arrives in Israel where he is surrounded by friends and family.Reuven Fenton

Gayle Sassoon (left) with her husband and family.

Gabriel Sassoon, left, is assisted during a eulogy for his seven children who died when a fire broke out in their home, on Sunday, March 22, in Brooklyn. — Gabriel Sassoon (left) is assisted during services for his seven children who died when a fire broke out in their home, on March 22 in Brooklyn.John Roca

Gabriel Sassoon, center, at a eulogy for his children. — John Roca

Gabriel Sassoon, center, is escorted away during the eulogy service for his children. — John Roca

People fill the streets near a Brooklyn chapel for a eulogy in remembrance of the seven siblings who perished in a fire on Saturday night, on Sunday, March 22. — People fill the streets near a Brooklyn chapel for a eulogy in remembrance of the seven siblings who perished in a fire, on March 22.Edmund J. Coppa

Mourners gather outside of Shomrei Hadas Chapels before a funeral service for the seven siblings killed in a house fire, Sunday, March 22, 2015, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. — Paul Martinka

People hold a candlelight vigil for the Sassoon family outside of their burned home. — People hold a vigil for the Sassoon family outside their burned home.Paul Martinka

A flower arrangement rests at the scene of the fire. Getty Images

Mayor Bill de Blasio embraces New York's Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro outside the house fire — Mayor Bill de Blasio embraces New York Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro outside the scene of the house fire.

Mayor Bill de Blasio gestures as he exits from the scene. — Getty Images

Mayor Bill de Blasio tours the home where a seven children perished in a fire. — Mayor Bill de Blasio tours the home where seven children perished in a fire.John M. Mantel

A police officer walks at the scene of the fire. — A police officer at the scene of the fire.Getty Images

The “Cry No More” recording was made so soon before the fire that there had been no time for the family to create a CD of the recording, an Orthodox community leader told The Post.

“I pray for them,” next-door neighbor Rose Insel, 87, said Wednesday, after a visiting fire-safety charity, the South Brooklyn-based New York Rescue Response Team, installed two new smoke detectors in her home.

“The kids were so lovely, always greeting me with laughter. I miss them very much,” she said.

“I’m sure they went straight up. They’re little angels.”

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Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhaya