Music in Concentration Camps 1933–1945

It would be wrong to reduce the “Music of the Shoah” (Holocaust/churbn) to the Yiddish songs from the ghetto camps of Eastern Europe or to the multiple activities in the realm of classical or Jewish music found in the ghetto camp at Theresienstadt, which of course enjoyed a special status as a model camp. It would be equally wrong to restrict our view of music in concentration camps to the Moorsoldatenlied [The Peat Bog Soldiers], the Buchenwald Song, the Dachau Song, or the so-called “Girls’...