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Music in the Nazi Camps and Ghettos

It is likely that there was some form of music in most of the approximately 10,000 Nazi camps. Music-making in the concentration camps took place under the extreme conditions of imprisonment.

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Music in the Death Camps

Even in the death camps, music played an important role in daily life. Official orchestras were established that performed at the camp gates in the mornings and evenings, and at weekly concerts. Prisoners also continued their own secret music-making away from the watchful eyes of the SS.

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Prisoners line up in the yard of the Oranienburg

Camp commanders reported joyful singing by prisoners as part of concerted propaganda to hide the horrors of the camp.                                                                                                                                              

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Survivors of the Łódź ghetto form The Happy Boys

Performers and organised performances were like bread and potatoes for the inhabitants of the Łódź ghetto. Concerts and theatre shows were given at the “House of Culture” established by "Eldest of the Jews" Mordechai Khayim Rumkowski.

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Sonic Torture at Dachau

The music produced from a loud speaker located on the Schubraumgebäude from records or the radio, had a crushing effect on the prisoners.                                                                                                      

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Blumenfeld, Diana

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Krimski, Yankl

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Gebirtig, Mordechai

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Vermehren, Isa

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Moskovits, Benzion

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Wieder, Yehoshua

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Lowy, Charles

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Sirota, Gershon

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Ullman, Viktor

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Taube, Carlo

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Simon, James

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Schul, Zikmund

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Schächter, Rafael

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Eisenstadt, Dovid

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Veksler, Misha

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Durmashkin, Wolf

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Rosenberg, Martin

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Gerron, Kurt

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Los Testigos de Jehová

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Frost, Erich Hugo

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Trupyanski, Yankl

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Czajkowska, Zofia

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Neumeyer, Hans

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Strauss, Leo

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Músico

Ledec, Egon

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Gold, Artur

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Szpilman, Wladyslaw

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Sutzkever, Avraham

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Rudnitski, Leah

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Kaczerginski, Shmerke

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Glick, Hirsh

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Szlengel, Wladyslaw

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Shpigl, Isaiah

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Diskant, Moshe

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Akselrod, Avrom

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Berman, Karel

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Eisenstadt, Marysia

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Rozental, Khayele

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Levitski, Lyube

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Classical Singers and the Holocaust

From 1933, a fine voice and vocal artistry were passports to freedom for some classically trained Jewish singers. But many singers could not escape.

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Síntesis: La música en los campos y guetos nazis

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Wilhelm Rettich

Wilhelm Rettich was a German composer, conductor and teacher. He fled to the Netherlands in 1933 and survived the Nazi occupation by hiding in a cellar.

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