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Ukrainian Romantic composer and pianist Sergei Bortkiewicz was born #OTD in 1877. Most of his compositions were destroyed in the bombing of German cities and hence he lost all income from the sale of his music. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Polish composer, film score composer, pianist, conductor, and actor George Andreani was born #OTD in 1901. He went into exile to Argentina in 1937 where his family were already living. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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American musicologist, organist, conductor and composer Alfred Szendrei was born 29 Feb 1884. He emigrated to Paris in 1933 and worked as the program director at "Radiodiffusion Nationale". With the Nazi raids in 1940 he fled to the US. www.rundfunkschaetze...

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Polish composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was born #OTD in 1919. Rising Nazi aggression in Vienna forced the composer’s family to move to Lviv. In 1941 he was arrested by the Soviet authorities but a 1942 amnesty allowed him to join the Polish army. culture.pl/en/artist...

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After being put on a Nazi hitlist because his wife was Jewish, the bassonist and Vienna Philharmonic chairman Hugo Burghauser (born #OTD) escaped Vienna and went into exile on 12 Sep 1938, first to Canada and then to the USA. wph-live.s3.amazonaw...

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Songwriter Růžena Danielová was born #OTD in 1904. During the Nazi occupation in 1943 she and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she lost her husband and all five children. She wrote the song "In Auschwitz is a Great House" in response. amendar.cz/osobnost/...

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Before deportation, pianist Eliška Kleinová (born #OTD 1912) taught music to support herself and her brother. He and Hans Krasa planned to save their music in Terezín by entrusting manuscripts to Irma Semtzka later given to Eliška in Prague after the war. orelfoundation.org/j...

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#OTD 1946 in the Nuremberg trials, the Jewish poet Abraham Sutzkever testified about the murder of almost 80,000 Jews in Vilnius by Germans who occupied the city. holocaustmusic.ort.o...

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German soprano Lotte Lehmann was born #OTD in 1888. Before Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Lehmann emigrated to the US where she continued to sing and support other musical refugees escaping Nazi Germany. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Polish concert pianist Natalia Karp was born #OTD in 1911. After being commanded to play for the Plaszow commandant, Amon Goeth's birthday, she and her sister, a ballerina, were spared execution. They survived #Auschwitz. www.telegraph.co.uk/...

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Russian conductor Issay Dobrowen who emigrated from Russia in 1922 was born #OTD in 1891. During WWII, he helped Bronsilaw Huberman and William Steinberg select musicians for the Palestine Orchestra and conducted it in 1938 in Tel Aviv. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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In 1933, German writer, songwriter, cabaret artist, composer and singer, Kurt Schwabach (born #OTD 1898) was banned from working and after several close calls and set-backs, finally escaped illegally by ship to Palestine. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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In 1933, actress and singer Nina Freund (born #OTD 1902) exiled to Czechoslovakia with her husband, where she organized aid for surviving relatives of Nazi victims and was a courier for the United Front. In 1939 the couple fled to London. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Despite growing prohibitions, the violist, violinist and copyist Heinrich Wollheim (born #OTD in 1892) continued to tour, perform and teach in defiance of Nazi rule. He survived Dachau and lived until age 84. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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After arrest in 1941, the Sinti musician Johann Herzberg died #OTD in 1943 in the Dachau concentration camp. Prior to this he had been a working musician and as such was expelled from the Reichsmusikkammer in 1940. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Cantor and singer Heinz Wartenberger (born #OTD in 1887) his wife and son fled to Shanghai in Aug 1939. Although he continued to be involved in the religious community there his involvement diminished until they left to reach NY via Germany in 1950. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Part of a musical Sinti family, Martha Eckstein (born #OTD in 1925) was deported along with 16 members of her family to Auschwitz in Mar 1943. While most of her family perished, she survived. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Arguably the most well known figure in theater and film in Terezin was Kurt Gerron, who was an international actor and director before being incarcerated in Westerbork. He was deported to Terezin on 25 February 1944 and directed the Nazi propaganda film. holocaustmusic.ort.o...

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Swedish musicologist, music teacher, music publisher and pianist Hans Eppstein was born #OTD in 1911 in Mannheim. Subjected to Nazi persecution he and his new wife emigrated to Sweden in 1936. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Leo Fantl (born #OTD in 1885 in Prague) was a specialist in Judaic studies, an editor and a musician. In April 1933, he was dismissed from the Dresdener newspaper which closed down on 1 July 1933. He died in Auschwitz on 8 Mar 1944. www.ghetto-theresien...

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#OTD in 1936, Bronislav Huberman wrote to the Manchester Guardian lambasting the silence of German intellectuals in the face of Nazism and its barbarism against the Jews, citing an incident where a girl is dragged through the streets through a baying mob. www.jewishpress.com/...

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Boaz Bischofswerder escaped Germany for London in 1933 where he was interned and deported to Australia with and one of his sons, Felix Werder. Interned in the Tatura camp he wrote various Jewish liturgical pieces. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Pianist and teacher Hansi Alt was born #OTD in 1911 in Austria. In 1941 she emigrated from Vienna to the USA where she taught piano and music theory in NY and LA. She wrote several piano textbooks for teaching elementary piano. composers-classical-...

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Born as Felix Bischofswerder #OTD 1922 in Berlin, Felix Werder, having fled Germany in 1933 for England, was arrested as an "enemy alien" and deported with his father to Australia on the ship Dunera in June 1940. www.australianmusicc...

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Ricardo Odnoposoff (born OTD in 1914) was a Argentine-Austrian-American violinist and concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic until dismissed on 1st Sep 1938 because he was unable to produce an Ariernachweis. He became a US citizen. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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German/Norwegian violinist, orchestra conductor and music teacher Ernst Glaser (born #OTD in 1904) fled Norway in 1942, escaping to neutral Sweden, spending 3 years in exile. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Polish composer Allan Gray (born Józef Żmigrod #OTD in 1902) is best known for his film scores. He began writing film scores in the Weimar Republic, but after the rise of Nazi Germany in 1933, continued composing in exile in England. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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In Sep 1943,Paul Seelig's music shop was ransacked by the Japanese and his manuscripts and compositions were lost. He was arrested and interned in a camp near Bandung where he became seriously ill and died on 12 Jun 1945. www.forbiddenmusicre...

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Composer and musician Herta Bauer (born #OTD in 1914) exiled to Belgrade in Aug 1938 with her family. Here she was able to continue her work in public, and published works (including texts to her own songs) under pseudonyms. musiklexikon.ac.at/m...

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Prominent and prolific composer of synagogue and Jewish music Herbert Fromm was born #OTD in 1905 in Kitzingen. He found refuge from the 3rd Reich in the USA during the 1930s and became associated principally with the American Reform movement. www.milkenarchive.or...

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16-year-old Andre Asriel (born #OTD in 1922) escaped to England on a child transport leaving his mother behind. Influenced by jazz, the composer was best known for his songs but also wrote music for more than 30 films. He returned to Germany after the war. de.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Musician Izaak Gokkes was born #OTD in 1918. He was sent to Terezin from Westerbork in Jan 1944 where he played in the Terezin municipal band. On 28 Sep 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz. www.holocaust.cz/en/...

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Marion Podolier (born #OTD in 1906) was a trained soprano. Rafael Schächter succeeded in securing her talent for the Czech Chamber Opera. When banned, she performed in homes - singing works by Viktor Ullmann. In Sep 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt. www.ghetto-theresien...

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Violinist and violin teacher Ferdinand Adler was arrested on Nov 11 1938 and imprisoned before transfer to Dachau. On his release in Mar 1939 he fled to Shanghai where he joined the Municipal Orchestra. He returned to Vienna in 1947 and died #OTD 1952. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and musicologist Vasyl Barvinsky (born #OTD in 1888) was arrested with his wife in Jan 1948 by the NKVD. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and exiled to a gulag in Mordovia. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Romanian-born author, poet, lecturer, and composer Magda Herzberger was a survivor of Auschwitz, Bremen, and Bergen-Belsen. Her book Survival covers her early life, her time in the camps and eventual liberation, and her reunion with her mother. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Julius Prüwer was born #OTD in 1874 and 6 years later received his first piano lesson. His extraordinary musicality showed and he entered the conservatory aged 12. During the war he lost his job and in 1939, he emigrated to the US. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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Raphaela Gromes will join conductor Han-Na Chang to perform Maria Herz’s Cello Concerto. Thu 27 Feb 2025 7.30 holocaustmusic.ort.org/resistance-a... www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/whats-on/hal...

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Dutch composer Rosy Wertheim (born #OTD in 1888) was in the Netherlands when WWII broke out, and survived by going into hiding from Sept 1942. She died from cancer in 1949 but left over 80 works. www.forbiddenmusicre...

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Jacques Braitberg was born #OTD in 1915. During WW2 he enrolled in the French Legion's band where he played the clairon. On leaving the Legion, he hid in the Bordeaux county. After the war he became a chemical engineer, but never stopped playing violin. hmlc.org/oral-histor...

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Young polish poet Abramek Koplowicz was born #OTD in 1930. By the end of 1940, the Jewish population of Lodz (180,000) including Abramek and his family, was enclosed within the walls of its ghetto. www.yadvashem.org/ar...

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Juda Swaab (born #OTD in 1904) wanted to take up the cello as a profession but his parents discourged him. He played cello in Westerbork before deportation to Terezín and subsequent murder with his wife Hansje and their child in Auschwitz on 28 Feb 1945. holocaustmusic.ort.o...

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Composer and member of the Paris intelligentsia, René Leibowitz was born #OTD in 1913. Originally Polish, he was initially interned as an alien but spent the war hiding in Paris and the unoccupied territory. www.lexm.uni-hamburg...

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German musicologist, composer and harpsichordist Richard Engländer was born #OTD in 1889. He was wounded in WWI and awarded the Iron Cross. From 1937 he was interrogated by the Nazis several times and arrested in 1939. He escaped to Sweden. de.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Austrian composer, librettist, chanson, cabaret, screenplay and stage author and pianist Hugo Wiener was born #OTD in 1904. He escaped to Bogotá in 1938 but only when his friend Fritz Imhoff gave him a blank check to pay the Reichsfluchtsteuer. de.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Violinist, conductor and pedagogue, Szymon Pullman was born in Warsaw #OTD in 1890 and died in Treblinka 1943. In 1939 he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto where he directed its Symphony Orchestra. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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