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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 …