In 1935, Anneliese Landau had her citizenship revoked. Stateless and without a work she made preparations to emigrate and in spring 1939 she left the Kulturbund and Nazi Germany and escaped to the US.
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In 1935, Anneliese Landau had her citizenship revoked. Stateless and without a work she made preparations to emigrate and in spring 1939 she left the Kulturbund and Nazi Germany and escaped to the US.
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Composer, conductor and pianist Richard Rosenberg was born #OTD in 1894. In 1938 he was prohibited from working and fled via Italy to Switzerland where he lived a withdrawn life and devoted himself to the composition of choral and chamber music.
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Czech composer and teacher Arthur Willner was born #OTD in 1881. On 15 Mar 1938, Willner left Austria for Paris to escape the German Anschluss and subsequently moved to England later that year where he continued to compose.
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At the Handel festival to mark Handelβs 250th birthday #OTD in 1935, keynote speaker and Nazi visionary Alfred Rosenberg asserted that Handelβs greatest success, Judas Maccabaeus, was "only a celebration of military victoryβ.
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Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was premièred #OTD in 1942 and became a symbol of resistance to Nazi totalitarianism and militarism. It is still regarded as the testament of the 27 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in World War II.
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Soprano, harpsichordist, pedagogue, composer and music writer Celia Bizony was born #OTD in 1899. Living in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s she escaped Germany but her elder sister, Susanne StΓΆckel and mother Gertrud were deported to Terezin and killed.
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Viennese composer, bandmaster and arranger Emil Bauer was born #OTD in 1874. He adapted works by Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss for salon orchestra. On 23 Oct 1941, he was deported from Vienna to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in ΕΓ³dΕΊ.
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Joseph Schmidt was born #OTD in 1904 and his heart gave out only 38 years later. He was interned as an illegal immigrant in the Gierenbad camp near Hindwhill where his health deteriorated and, because of a lack of medical attention, he died on 16 Nov 1942.
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Cantor Samuel Adler was born #OTD in 1928 in Mannheim. He was son to Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the US in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Γmile Damais was a French composer and musicologist. A prisoner in the Stalag II B, Hammerstein / Schlochau during the Second World War, he composed there Γ nuitβ¦ for singing and orchestra. He was also a professor of music history.
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German-Swiss composer Wilhelm Engelhard Eisenmann was born #OTD in 1906. Targetted as a Bolshevik and pacifist, he moved in May 1933 to Spain and in Aug 1934 to Switzerland.
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Composer Fritz Rotter was born #OTD in 1900 in Vienna. He was successful in Berlin writing popular movie songs. In 1933 he returned to Vienna then in 1936 left for England, going on to the USA in 1937. In total he wrote lyrics to over 1200 hits.
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Singer (baritone), cantor, religious teacher and piano teacher Rudolf Loewy (born #OTD in 1893) was shot dead with his wife Margarete in a fortress near Kaunas in Nov 1941 after his efforts to get abroad with his wife and last remaining daughter failed.
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"Ivo Wesby was born Ignacy Singer #OTD 1902. In the 1920s he was director of various revi-teaters in Warsaw, and the years before WWII he led the well known Groyse Review. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he created a revi-teater with Jerzy Jurandot.
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Like few others, Kurt Weill (born #OTD in 1900) and Bertolt Brecht are synonymous with the cultural innovation of the Weimar Republic. Most famously with their Die Dreigroschenoper. The duo represented everything that the Nazi regime declared its enemy.
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Actress Camilla Spira was born #OTD in 1906 to acting parents. Not fully understanding the threat she faced, she was interned in Westerbork on her return from the US. Her charm and friends' bribes secured her later release but her parents were killed.
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Alfred Goodman was an American composer and musicologist born (Guttmann) in Germany #OTD in 1920. He played violin and drums in the JΓΌdischer Kulturbund orchestra and emigrated to London in April 1939 then on to New York in January 1940.
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Born #OTD 1915, Antonia Bruha began writing poetry at 18 for "VΓdeΕskΓ© dΔlnickΓ© listy" under the pseudonym "Tanja SpatovΓ‘". Arrested for resistance activity and her baby daughter taken as leverage, Bruha escaped the death march from RavensbrΓΌck.
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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.
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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.
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Judah Swab loved the cello but his parents pushed him into dentistry to support his family. He played cello in Westerbork before deportation to TerezΓn and subsequent murder with his wife Hansje and their foster child in Auschwitz #OTD in 1945.
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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.
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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.
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Songwriter RΕ―ΕΎena DanielovΓ‘ 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.
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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.
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Polish composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was born #OTD in 1919. Rising Nazi aggression in Vienna forced the composerβs 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.
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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.
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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.
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Before deportation, pianist EliΕ‘ka KleinovΓ‘ (born #OTD 1912) taught music to support herself and her brother. He and Hans Krasa planned to save their music in TerezΓn by entrusting manuscripts to Irma Semtzka later given to EliΕ‘ka in Prague after the war.
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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.
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