EAN: 9780393531862

SING MEMORY - MAKANA EYRE GEBUNDEN

On a cold October night in 1942  SS guards at Sachsenhausen violently disbanded a rehearsal of
a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Only one of its members survived the
Holocaust. Yet their story survives  thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician  he
was not Jewish but struck up an unlikely friendship with d'Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D'Arguto
tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps. In
Sing  Memory  Makana Eyre recounts Kulisiewicz's extraordinary transformation from a Polish
nationalist into a guardian of music and culture from the Nazi camps. Aided by an eidetic
memory  Kulisiewicz preserved for posterity not only his own songs about life at the camp  but
the music and poetry of dozens of other prisoners. Drawing on extensive archival research  Eyre
tells this rich and affecting human story of musical resistance to the Nazi regime in full for
the first time.

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