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Karel Ančerl
… the majority of the musicians he conducted were deported to Auschwitz. He was the only member of his family to …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… level of theft in the ghetto. Hershkowitz was deported to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 and then transferred to a … … Ghetto … Rumkowski … Chaim … street performer … Satire … Auschwitz … Braunschweig … Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz) …
Martin (Rosebery d'Arguto) Rosenberg
… he discovered that the Jewish prisoners were to be sent to Auschwitz, he wrote the words to Tsen Brider (Ten … … Choir … Director … Sachsenhausen … Tsen Brider … Chorus … Auschwitz … Rosebery d'Arguto … Martin (Rosebery d'Arguto) …
Richard Newman
… musical education, like the book: Alma Rose: Wien 1906 - Auschwitz 1944. Richard Jacob Newman died suddenly on …
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
… a lawyer and her mother a violinist. Anita was sent to Auschwitz in December 1943. Playing in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz saved her, as cello players were difficult to … the Truth ': Memoir of a member of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz. Full biography on ' Anita Lasker-Wallfisch ', …
Viktor Ullmann. A brief biography and appreciation
… in 1942. In Oct. 1944 Ullmann was sent to his death in Auschwitz. The author discusses, on the basis of his …
Violonist in Auschwitz: from Salonica to Jerusalem, 1913-1967
… Originally in German 'Geiger in Auschwitz'. Personal narratives of Jacques Stroumsa, a violonist from Salonica who miraculously survived Auschwitz concentration camp, rebuilt his life in Paris and … … Greece … Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa … Violonist in Auschwitz: from Salonica to Jerusalem, 1913-1967 …
Playing for Time
… Memoir of a French singer who spent two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was a featured … … Orchestra … Memoir … Alma Rose … Women's Orchestra … Auschwitz … Fania Fenelon … Playing for Time …
Music of Another World
… Memoir by the music director of the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz. Recounts the author's daily existence including … … … 1989 … Holocaust … Orchestra … Memoir … Prisoner … Auschwitz … Prisoner Orchestra … Performance … Szymon Laks … …
Inherit the Truth, 1939–45
… Memoir of a member of the women's orchestra in Auschwitz. Includes a translated section from the book Elf Frauen: Leben in Wahrheit: eine ִrztin berichtet aus Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942-1945 by Margita Schwalbova that … … Orchestra … Memoir … Alma Rose … Women's Orchestra … Auschwitz … Anita Lasker-Wallfisch … Inherit the Truth, …