Description

Shirli Gilbert has produced the first large-scale, critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. She documents a wide scope of musical activities in Nazi internment centres, and is also concerned with exploring the ways in which music – particularly the many songs that were preserved – contribute to our broader understanding of the Holocaust and the experiences of its victims.

CONTENTS

1 Redeeming Music: ‘Spiritual resistance’ and beyond
2 ‘Have compassion, Jewish hearts’: Music in the Warsaw Ghetto
3 Vilna: Politicians and Partisans
4 Songs Confront the Past: Life in the Sachsenhausen
5 Fragments of Humanity: Music in Auschwitz
6 Epilogue