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, 11425. 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 , edited by Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz, 289–307. : Press, 2010. Haas, Michael. Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Hirsch, Lily E. A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League. Ann Arbor: University of Press, 2010. Karas, Joža. Music in Terezín 1941–1945. New York: Beaufort Books, 1985. Knapp, Gabriele. “Music as a Means of Survival: The Women’s Orchestra in Auschwitz.” Originally published as “Musizieren als Überlebenshilfe: Das Frauenorchester in Auschwitz.” In Feministische Studien 1 (1996), 26–34. Translated by Katherine Deeg, Anette Bauer, and Liane Curtis. Moreno, Joseph J. “Orpheus in Hell: Music in the Holocaust.” In Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music, edited by Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, 264–86. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. Rubin, Emanuel and John H. Baron. Music in Jewish History and Culture. Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2006. Werb, Bret. “Vu ahin zol ikh geyn? Music of Jewish Displaced Persons.” In Across Centuries and Cultures: Musicological Studies in Honor of Joachim Braun, edited by Kevin C. Karnes and Levi Sheptovitsky, 75–91. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010.

Biographies and Memoirs

Beker, Sonia Pauline. Symphony on Fire: A Story of Music and Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust. New Milford, NJ: Wordsmithy, 2007. Bent, Frances. The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson. New York: Atlas, 2009. Bloch, Max. “Viktor Ullmann: A Brief Biography and Appreciation.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 3:2 (October 1979): 151–77. Braun, Shony Alex. My Heart is a Violin. With Emily Cavins. Fairfield, CA: 1st Books, 2002. Cummins, Paul. Dachau Song: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper. 3rd ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Davidson, Susie. The Music Man of Terezin: The Story of Rafael Schaechter, as Remembered by Edgar Krasa. Somerville, MA: Ibbetson Street Press, 2012. Dawson, Greg. Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy’s Story of Survival 1941–1946. New York: Pegasus Books, 2009. Fénelon, Fania. Playing for Time. With Marcelle Routier. Translated by Judith Landry. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Filar, Marian. From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall. With Charles Patterson. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Gaitanos, Sarah. The Violinist: Clare Galambos Winter, Holocaust Survivor. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 2010. Goldsmith, Martin. The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany . New York: Wiley, 2000. Grymes, James A. Violins of Hope. New York: HarperCollins, 2014. Jani, Emilio. My Voice Saved Me: Auschwitz 180046. Translated by Timothy Paterson. Milan, Centauro Editrice, 1961. Laks, Szymon. Music of Another World. Translated by Chester A. Kisiel. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1989. Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita. Inherit the Truth: A Memoir of Survival and the Holocaust. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Müller, Melissa, and Reinhard Piechocki. Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. Mur, Alfred. The Last Quartet: A Violinist’s Memoir of the Holocaust. Jacksonville, FL: Prindle House, 2009. Newman, Richard. Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz. With Karen Kirtley. Portland: Amadeus Press, 2000. Rose, Calmo. The Violinist. Translated by Patrick Camiller. Los Angeles: Duende Books, 2007. Sachnowitz, Herman. The Story of “Herman der Norweger,” Auschwitz Prisoner #79235. With Arnold Jacoby. Translated by Thor Hall. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002. Shtibel, Rachel. The Violin. Toronto: The Azrieli Foundation, 2007. Shuldman, Ken. Jazz Survivor: The Story of Louis Bannet, Horn Player of Auschwitz. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005. Slavický, Milan. Gideon Klein: A Fragment of Life and Work. Translated by Dagmar Steinová. Prague: Helvetica-Tempora Publishers, 1998. Stoessinger, Caroline. A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor. London: Two Roads, 2012. Stroumsa, Jacques. Violinist in Auschwitz: From Salonica to Jerusalem 1913–1967. Translated by James Stewart Brice. Edited by Erhard Roy Wiehn. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre, 1996. Szpilman, Władysław. The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945. New York: Picador, 1999. Wadler, Aleeza Nemirovsky. “Strings in the Shadows: A Portrait of Three Violinists at the Terezín Concentration Camp.” DMA diss., Boston University, 2003. Zelmanowicz-Olewski, Rachela. Crying is Forbidden Here! Translated and edited by Arie Olewski and Jochevet Ritz-Olewski. Tel Aviv, 2009.

Films

Bach in Auschwitz, VHS. Directed by Michel Daëron. Les Films D’Ici, 1999. Holocaust: A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz, DVD. Directed by James Kent. BBC, 2005. The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life [Alice Herz-Sommer], DVD. Directed by Malcolm Clarke. Reed Entertainment, 2013. Orchestra of Exiles, DVD. Directed by Josh Aronson. First Run Features, 2012. Playing for Time, DVD. Directed by Daniel Mann. Olive Films, 2010. We Want the Light, DVD. Directed by Christopher Nupen. Opus Arte, 2004. The Wonder and the Grace of Alice Sommer Herz, DVD. Directed by Christopher Nupen. Allegro Films, 2009.