Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps

Eyre, Makana

ISBN 10: 0393531864 / ISBN 13: 9780393531862

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2023

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Fine first American edition, first printing in near fine dust jacket. There's nothing wrong with the dj it's just not 'fresh'. A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d?Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived the guards? reprisal were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau just a few weeks later. A non-fiction account of the one survivor and his attempt to save the music and the memory.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393531864
• ISBN 13: 9780393531862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

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.

About the Author

Makana Eyre is an American journalist based in Paris, covering politics, the far right, and the media, with a focus on Europe. His work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the Nation, the Guardian, and Foreign Policy.