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Violinists of the Holocaust James A. Grymes Jagrymes@Uncc.Edu Violinists of the Holocaust James A. Grymes [email protected] Background Sources Fackler, Guido. “Music in Concentration Camps, 1933–1945.” Translated by Peter Logan. Music and Politics 1:1 (Winter 2007). ———. “‘We all feel this music is infernal . .’: Music on Command in Auschwitz.” Translated by Corinne Granof. In The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz, edited by David Mickenburg, Corinne Granof, and Peter Hayes, 11425. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003. Flam, Gila. Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940–45. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. Gilbert, Shirli. Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ———. “‘We Long for a Home’: Songs and Survival among Jewish Displaced Persons.” In “We Are Here”: New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany, edited by Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz, 289–307. 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