Auschwitz

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Eleven members of the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz reunite in 1999 to share their experiences.

Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Traces the life of violinist Alma Rosé, a niece of Gustav Mahler. Recounts her childhood and early musical career in Vienna, her experiences in occupied Holland, and her time as music master of the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz.

Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Memoir of an Italian Jewish tenor who was arrested and imprisoned in the Via Tasso, Regina Coeli, and Fossoli prisons in Italy, and who later performed with the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz.

Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Social history documenting musical life in the Warsaw and Vilna ghettos as well as prisoner choirs and orchestras in the Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz concentration camps. Includes a glossary, bibliography, index, and an appendix listing songs created or performed by Jewish prisoners.

Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Fictionalized account of the actual performance of Verdi’s Requiem in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1944, under the baton of conductor Raphael Schהchter. All of the performers were later deported en masse to Auschwitz.

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 discusses Dr. Schwalbova's experiences with Alma Rosé and the women's orchestra.

Memoir by the music director of the prisoner orchestra in Auschwitz. Recounts the author's daily existence including performances for SS officers of the camp.

Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Memoir of a French singer who spent two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was a featured performer in the women’s orchestra. Includes detailed descriptions of life in the orchestra under the direction of Alma Rose´.