Music in Terezin 1941-1945

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780825302879


See the second edition, ISBN 9781576470305. When Adolf Hitler created the model camp at Theresienstadt (Terezín in Czech) for the better-known of Europe"s Jewish transportees, he gathered together many of the continent"s finest musicians. This examination of the associations, the compositions, the performances, and above all, the people in Terezín accentuates the roles the active musical life played in the struggle for hope in those darkest of times.