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Sing, memory : the remarkable story of the man who saved the music of the Nazi camps
- Title
- Sing, memory : the remarkable story of the man who saved the music of the Nazi camps / Makana Eyre.
- Author
- Eyre, Makana
- Publication
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, this powerful story recounts the transformation of Polish nationalist Aleksander Kulisiewicz after an unlikely friendship with a Jewish conductor in Sachsenhausen who tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.
- Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, Eyre recounts the transformation of Polish nationalist Aleksander Kulisiewic. An amateur magician, he was not Jewish, but struck up an unlikely friendship with members of a secret Jewish choir; when the group was violently disbanded at a rehearsal, Kulisiewic was the only member who survived the Holocaust. Aided by an eidetic memory, he was able to preserve for posterity not only his own songs about life at the camp, but the music and poetry of prisoners from a range of national and cultural backgrounds. Kulisiewic dedicated the remained of his life to saving the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Kulisiewicz, Aleksander Tytus, 1918-1982
- Rosenberg, Martin
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) > Songs and music
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- 1939-1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Songs and music
- Nazi concentration camp inmates as musicians
- World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Songs and music
- Internment camps
- Nazi concentration camps
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Songs and music.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-323) and index.
- Call Number
- JME 23-441
- ISBN
- 9780393531862
- 0393531864
- 9780393531879 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1346293378
- Author
- Eyre, Makana, author.
- Title
- Sing, memory : the remarkable story of the man who saved the music of the Nazi camps / Makana Eyre.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-323) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780393531879
- Research Call Number
- JME 23-441