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Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… memories were of the endless marches they played while the prisoners entered and exited the camp every day. He also … Stroumsa was sent on a death march to Mauthausen, where the prisoners arrived six days later. As the war was drawing to …
Gideon Klein
… rehearsals and small scale performances for his fellow prisoners. Since Klein had no access to a piano in the early …
Rafael Schächter
… staged by Schächter and Švenk. With the influx of musical prisoners to Terezín, Schächter's choral activities grew in …
Karel Reiner
… dramas and comedies for the enjoyment of his fellow prisoners. He wrote and performed the incidental music for …
Martin (Rosebery d'Arguto) Rosenberg
… brutally tortured. He later formed a chorus of 25 Jewish prisoners that carried out their activities in secret in the less guarded barracks for political prisoners. In 1942, when he discovered that the Jewish prisoners were to be sent to Auschwitz, he wrote the words …
Robert Lachmann
… POW camp, populated by primarily North African and Indian prisoners. It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to … and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions of the prisoner’s songs. His experience in Wünsdorf quite likely …
Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45
… Explores the repertoire of songs created or performed by prisoners in the Lodz ghetto. Provides a brief history and …
Music of Another World
… Memoir by the music director of the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz. Recounts the author's daily … Press … … 1989 … Holocaust … Orchestra … Memoir … Prisoner … Auschwitz … Prisoner Orchestra … Performance … Szymon Laks … Music of …
Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
… musical life in the Warsaw and Vilna ghettos as well as prisoner choirs and orchestras in the Sachsenhausen and … an appendix listing songs created or performed by Jewish prisoners. … 1 … Oxford … Oxford University Press … … 2005 … … camps … Vilna … Social history … Warsaw Ghetto … Prisoner … Sachsenhausen … Auschwitz … Choirs … Shirli …
Musik Macht Frei: Choral Music Composed and Performed in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938-44
… Research: Bibliographies Documents the formation and use of prisoner choirs in concentration camps and ghettos, with … … Choir … Terezin - Theresienstadt (Concentration Camp) … Prisoner … Choirs … Lisa Graham … Musik Macht Frei: Choral …