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Music amongst Displaced Persons
The Displaced Persons’ camps of occupied post-war Europe were home to a diverse range of music used as a means to chronicle what they had experienced.
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David Botwinik
Composer
David Botwinik is a composer of Yiddish music and a music teacher. At the age of almost 13, he began his studies at the Yidisher muzik-institut conservatory in Vilna. Later, he studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy.
Mieczysław Weinberg
Composer
The prolific Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) wrote 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets, 7 operas, 6 concertos, 3 ballets, 30 sonatas and more than 200 songs as well as 60 film scores and incidental music for theatre and circus.
Mikhail Gnessin
Composer
Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin was a Russian Jewish composer and teacher. Gnessin's works "The Maccabeans" and "The Youth of Abraham" earned him the nickname the "Jewish Glinka".
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Music in the Bergen-Belsen DP-camp
After the liberation Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945, British occupation forces established a Displaced Persons’ camp for survivors.
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On a heym, on a dakh ♫
The Yiddish song 'On a heym, on a dakh' (Without a home, without a roof) is from a Jewish survivor Ludwig Hamburger by David Boder.
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ORT and the DP Camps
The end of WWII presented ORT and other relief organisations with many challenges. As many as 80,000 Jews passed through ORT training projects after the war.
Name
Artist
Category
Time
Evgeny Evtushenko (1962)
Music after the Holocaust
Orchestral Music
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