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Sing, memory : the remarkable story of the man who saved the music of the Nazi camps / Makana Eyre.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection ML3776 .E97 2023
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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3776 .E97 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eyre, Makana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Kulisiewicz, Aleksander Tytus, 1918-1982.
- Kulisiewicz, Aleksander Tytus.
- Rosenberg, Martin.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)--Songs and music.
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp).
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Songs and music.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780393531862
- 0393531864
- OCLC:
- 1346293378
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