Music of Another World
by
Szymon Laks
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Jewish Lives
ISBN-10
0810118025
ISBN-13
9780810118027
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Imprint
Northwestern University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 2000
Print length
152 Pages
Weight
216 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.40 x 1.00 cms
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The story of the orchestra at Auschwitz told by its conductor. Laks recounts the iconceivable spectacle of SS guards growing teary-eyed at the sound of familiar melodies and in the next moment giving themselves up to the furies of extermination.
Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria. His story is a testament to the human spirit and to music itself, the beauty of which Laks and others honored even as the lives of so many were destroyed.
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