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"In Terezín, a Nazi camp where 35,000 people died, a remarkable community of musicians and artists answered despair with creativity. Here is their astonishing world, captured firsthand in lively concert critiques by composer, scholar, and prisoner Viktor Ullmann. We meet Terezín's choirs and solo artists, luminaries of European cabaret and opera, and a generation of accomplished composers silenced ...

This work is a strong social and cultural history with new information on many institutions familiar today (e.g. BBC, National Theatre) and it is a fascinating background to the contemporary relationship between government and the arts. In 1834, Lord Melbourne spoke the words that epitomised the British government's attitude towards its own involvement in the arts: 'God help the minister that meddles ...

The Ernest R. Stiefel papers include photocopies of emigration and expropriation documents, Jüdische Kultusvereinigung and Jüdischer Kulturbund documents, and personal narratives describing the Nazi persecution of the Stiefel family from Frankfurt am Main; German and international barriers to German emigration; and the confiscation of money, property, and possessions of family members who emigrated ...

Two original record discs (LPs) of recordings by Holocaust survivor and historian Joseph Wulf (b. Chemnitz, 1912 - 1974, Berlin). Includes songs composed by Joseph Wulf, accompanied on piano by Friedrich Scholz.

This fonds contains documents concerning the Jewish communities in Belgium (mainly Antwerp and Brussels) during the interwar period, collected by David Trotsky. The bulk of the material is dated 1920-1938. We mostly find printed matter (newsletters, posters, flyers, …), circulars, reports, membership cards, invitations, election materials, clippings, … covering virtually all aspects of Jewish political, ...

Songs performed by Joseph Wulf. The arranger and pianist on the recordings is Friedrich Scholz. Wulf announces the song titles, composers and poets at the start of almost every track in the following order: 1. Zol zayn 2. Hey, tsigelekh 3. Azamer bi'shvakhim 4. Yedid Nefesh 5. Fun land tsu land 6. Hatsos 7. A small biographical note about Weingarten (spoken) 8. Zunenshtraln 9. Unter di khurves fun ...

This collection contains the personal and family papers of Hans Seelig, university lecturer and musician and former Kindertransport refugee from Mannheim, Germany. The papers include material which documents Hans' life as a school student, his life as a languages student in Oxford, his life as a school teacher and later a university lecturer, his role as chairman of the Club 1943 (1860/1/6), and his ...

(niet-gepubliceerde) inventarissen: G. JANSSENS, Archives du Secrétariat de la Reine Elisabeth. Inventaris van de reeks “Peintres – Schilders”, 2003; S. DAUDERGNIES, Archives du Secrétariat de la Reine Elisabeth, Section “Patronages”, Inventaire des dossiers., s.d.; S. DAUDERGNIES, Archives du Secrétariat de la Reine Elisabeth, Section “Photographies”, s.d.; S. DAUDERGNIES, Archives du Secrétariat ...

Mayer Abraham Stern was born on 19 June 1894 in Stryj (Ukraine). He studied pre-med and economics at Vienna University and became a cosmetics producer and dealer, owning a factory in Warsaw. By 1920 he had moved to Berlin where, on 21 April, he married Flora Lachs, born in Warsaw on 14 May 1899. She held a degree in chemistry from Warsaw University. The couple was well-to-do and settled in a good neighbourhood ...

Manuscript memoir, in Yiddish, 120 pages, describing David Newman's experiences in the Skarżysko-Kamienna forced labor camp in Poland during the German occupation, and his subsequent imprisonment at Buchenwald, written by Newman in 1988. An English translation by Miriam Beckerman, from 2006, is also included. The text begins with an account of the pre-war history of the Jewish community in his hometown ...

Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu

The Lenneberg and Brünell families papers consists of a diary, photographs, and documents relating to Ursula Lenneberg and Siegmund Brünell’s families' pre-war life in Germany and their wartime and post-war experiences in various concentration camps and DP camps. The diary was written by Ursula while in the Deggendorf DP camp. In the diary she describes her experiences interned in several camps including ...

Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded ...

Hy Bloom was born in Ottawa on July 15, 1921, son of Celia Bloom and David Lewis Bloom, a tailor. At the age of eight, he first encountered the fascinating world of sound under the guidance of his father and before Hy had finished elementary school, he was building basic microphones. Frequent visits to the library and regular attendance at various radio shops augmented his Lisgar Collegiate education. ...

Lanzmann interviewed Franz Suchomel, who was with the SS at Treblinka, in secret at the Hotel Post in April 1976. This was the first interview Lanzmann filmed with the newly developed hidden camera known as the Paluche, and he paid Suchomel 500 DM. In the outtakes, Suchomel provides further details about the treatment of Jews at the camp, as well as a more ambivalent memory of his experiences than ...

Fond consists of a DVD of: A 50th anniversary celebrations, 2007; A large framed colour photograph of the interior of Beth Shalom (see 4-738); A 2012/2013 (5773) Congregation of Beth Shalom Calendar; One kippa from the 50th Anniversary celebration - 2008; An envelope of photos, mostly from Beth Shalom in the 1970's. Includes photos of the Beth Shalom Choir, various events like Chanukah parties and ...