Audible testimonies surviving the Third Reich in music and media Abby Anderton

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderton, Abby, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music.

Music--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Music.

Music--Germany--20th century--History and criticism.

National socialism and music.

Music--Political aspects.

Music--History and criticism.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY Oxford University Press [2026]

Summary:

Many of the first Holocaust testimonies involved music. Yet despite the central role that music played in the traumatic aftermath of the Third Reich, it was not perceived as testimonial. 'Audible Testimonies' explores the early post-war sounds of survivor musicians in Germany, demonstrating that their compositions, recordings, and performances were forms of witnessing. Individuals persecuted by the Nazis, including Jewish Holocaust survivors, political prisoners, Communist resistance fighters, and members of the Black German community, intentionally documented their experiences with music

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Witness as Music / Music as Witness

Music and Therapy

Chapter Outline

1 "The Avenue of Hearing": Silent Images, Sounding Testimonies

The Sounding Survivor: Music and Testimony

Living With/Working Through: Repetition, Music, and Trauma

2 The Musical Score and Testimony: The Songs of Ludmila Peškařová and Inge Lammel

The Ravensbrück Songs

The Poet of Ravensbrück: Ludmila Peškařová

Melodies to Remember, Memories to Forget

3 Performing Sonic Testimony: Musical Re-enactment and the Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra

Displaced Music

The Sound of Re-enactment

An Orchestra of Survivors/Orchestrating Survival

Leonard Bernstein and the Representative Orchestra

4 The Singing Survivor: Testimony and Voice in the Songs of Fasia Jansen and Lin Jaldati

Sounding, Singing, Surviving

Survival Songs in Performance

Lin Jaldati (1912-1988)

Fasia Jansen (1929-1997)

Section 2: The Survivor Voice on Film, 1965-1985

Lin Jaldati Sings (1962)

Fasia: Of Defiant Women and a Troubadour (1987)

Conclusions

5 Inaudible Music, Latent Testimonies: The Lives and Work of Ella Jonas-Stockhausen and Erich Adler

Ella Jonas-Stockhausen

Erich Adler (1911-1982)

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 23, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197811238

019781123X

OCLC:

1581155674

Publisher Number:

CIPO000370889

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license