Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps

Eyre, Makana

ISBN 10: 0393531864 / ISBN 13: 9780393531862

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0393531864I4N10

Inhaltsangabe:

On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d’Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived the guards’ reprisal were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau just a few weeks later. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician, he was not Jewish, but struck up an unlikely friendship with d’Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D’Arguto tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.Sing, MemoryAfter the war, Kulisiewicz returned to Poland and assembled an archive of camp music, which he went on to perform in more than a dozen countries. He dedicated the remainder of his life to the memory of the Nazi camps. Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, Eyre tells this rich and affecting human story of musical resistance to the Nazi regime in full for the first time.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Makana Eyre is an American journalist based in Paris, covering politics, the far right, and the media, with a focus on Europe. His work has appeared in publications, including the Washington Post, the Nation, the Guardian, and Foreign Policy.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the ...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket