'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in Auschwitz
After being sent to the Nazi death camp in 1943, Anita Lasker survived by playing in its women's orchestra. In 1996, she ...
The Lost Music of Auschwitz: How a British composer brought hidden Holocaust symphonies to life
Geyer, 33, first came across the lost archive when he was commissioned to write a composition in memory of Sir Martin Gilbert ...
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On TV tonight: Meet the last surviving member of Auschwitz’s women’s orchestra
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, this powerful documentary tells the story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the only surviving ...
Pittsburgh families tell survivors' stories from Auschwitz 80 years later on Holocaust Remembrance Day
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the families of two survivors who resettled in Pittsburgh shared their stories.
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Written at Auschwitz, music provides a haunting score to Holocaust remembrance
When the Roma violinist Jakub Segar arrived at Auschwitz, the concentration camp’s guards ordered him to strip and hand over ...
Holocaust survivors recall horrors of Auschwitz as Prince William and Kate attend London memorial
On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in ...
‘I’m appalled we’re going through senseless anti-Semitism again,’ says survivor of Auschwitz women’s orchestra
Television: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story ...
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The lost music of Auschwitz: How Jewish inmates were forced to perform in death camp orchestras - and now their compositions are being played again
The first Auschwitz orchestra was formed in January 1941 on the order of the SS, with seven musicians playing on instruments seized from nearby towns. Initially it performed in the basement of ...
The Last Musician of Auschwitz, review: this breathtaking documentary will stay with you forever
It is only human nature to become slightly inured to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. On the 80th anniversary of ...
BBC, Sky Arts Docs Explore How the Nazis “Weaponized” Music at Auschwitz
The Lost Music of Auschwitz' and 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz' air in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp where more than 1.1 million people lost their lives.
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Louisville Orchestra remembers concertmaster with opera he learned in Theresienstadt
After escaping a death march from Auschwitz, Paul Kling moved to Kentucky and became the orchestra's first chair. A Saturday ...
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The Lost Music of Auschwitz: How a British composer brought hidden Holocaust symphonies to life
Featuring interviews with some of the last remaining survivors of the genocide and the Auschwitz orchestra, Geyer reveals how musicians rebelled with secret melodies and forbidden notes hidden ...