Violins of Hope (31 page)

Birkenau Women's Camp Orchestra:

Fania Fénelon, with Marcelle Routier,
Playing for Time
, trans. Judith Landry (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997); Gabriele Knapp,
Das Frauenorchester in Auschwitz: Musikalische Zwangsarbeit und ihre Bewältigung
(Hamburg: Von Bockel, 1996); Anita Lasker-Wallfisch,
Inherit the Truth: A Memoir of Survival and the Holocaust
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996); Richard Newman,
Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
, with Karen Kirtley (Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2000); and Rachela Olewski Zelmanowicz, “Crying Is Forbidden Here!,” trans. and ed. Arie Olewski and Jochevet Ritz-Olewski, courtesy of Arie Olewski and Jochevet Ritz-Olewski.

Other Auschwitz Ensembles:

Ruth Elias,
Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
, trans. Margot Bettauer Dembo (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998); Primo Levi,
Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening: Two Memoirs
, trans. Stuart Woolf (New York: Summit Books, 1986); Herman Sachnowitz,
The Story of “Herman der Norweger,” Auschwitz Prisoner #79235
, with Arnold Jacoby, trans. Thor Hall (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002); Coco Schumann,
Der Ghetto-Swinger: Eine Jazzlegende erzählt
, ed. Max Christian Graeff and Michaela Haas (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997); and Elie Wiesel,
Night
, trans. Marion Wiesel (New York: Hill & Wang, 2006).

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The Holocaust in Norway:

Samuel Abrahamsen, “The Holocaust in Norway,” in
Contemporary Views on the Holocaust
, ed. Randolph L. Braham (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1983), 109–42; Samuel Abrahamsen,
Norway's Response to the Holocaust
(New York: Holocaust Library, 1991); Maynard M. Cohen,
A Stand Against Tyranny: Norway's Physicians and the Nazis
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997); Richard Petrow,
The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945
(New York: William Morrow, 1974); and Sachnowitz,
The Story of “Herman der Norweger.”

Ole Bull:

Sara Chapman Thorp Bull and Alpheus Benning Crosby,
Ole Bull
(Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1883); Einar Haugen and Camilla Cai,
Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993); Mortimer Smith,
The Life of Ole Bull
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1943); and Amnon Weinstein, “Ole Bull: A Renaissance Man,”
Journal of the Violin Society of America
17, no. 1 (2000): 85–125.

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra:

Hans Jørgen Hurum,
Musikken under okkupasjonen
(Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1946); KÃ¥re Fasting,
Musikselskabet “Harmonien” gjennom to hundre Ã¥r
1765–1965 (Bergen: John Grieg, 1965); Olav Mosby,
Musikselskabet Harmonien,
1765–1945, vol. 2 (Bergen: John Grieg, 1949); and Elef Nesheim,
Et musikkliv i krig: Konserten som politisk arena, Norge
1940–45 (Oslo: Norsk Musikforlag, 2007).

Ernst Glaser:

Newspaper clippings and other documents from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Ernst Glaser, interview at the Music Academy in Ålesund (typescript), January 14, 1975, courtesy of Ernst Simon Glaser; newspaper clippings and other information from Berit, Liv, and Ernst Simon Glaser, as well as from Torleif Torgersen; interview with Berit, Liv, and Ernst Simon Glaser on January 29, 2012; interview with Solveig and Mona Levin on January 28, 2012; and newspaper clippings and other documents from the Oslo National Library.

Flight and Exile in Sweden:

Kirsten Flagstad,
The Flagstad Manuscript
, ed. Louis Biancolli (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1952); “Kunstnerparet Glaser: To trofaste norske musikkambassadører i Sverige,”
Norsk Musikkliv
9–10 (1945): 1–5; Robert Levin,
Med livet i hendene
, with Mona Levin (Oslo: J. W. Cappelens, 1983); and Ragnar Ulstein,
Jødar på flukt
(Oslo: Norske samlaget, 1995).

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The Holocaust in Romania:

Jean Ancel,
The History of the Holocaust in Romania
, trans. Yaffah Murciano, ed. Leon Volovici, assisted by Miriam Caloianu (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011); International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania,
Final Report
(2004); and Radu Ioanid,
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime,
1940–1944 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000).

Transnistria:

Felicia Steigman Carmelly,
Shattered! 50
Years of Silence: History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria
(Scarborough, Ontario: Abbeyfield, 1997); Julius S. Fisher,
Transnistria: The Forgotten Cemetery
(South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1969); Yosef Govrin,
In the Shadow of Destruction: Recollections of Transnistria and Illegal Immigration to Eretz Israel,
1941–1947 (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007); correspondence with Dr. Timor Melamed; Avigdor Shachan,
Burning Ice: The Ghettos of Transnistria
, trans. Schmuel Himelstein (Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1996); and Meir Teich, “The Jewish Self-Administration in Ghetto Shargorod (Transnistria),”
Yad Vashem Studies
2 (1958): 219–54.

Feivel Wininger:

Helen Wininger Livnat,
Le-male et ha-zeman be-
ayim
[Filling time with life] (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishers, 2006); interview with Helen Wininger Livnat, March 7, 2012; and Feivel Wininger, “We were so many and so weak; we remained few but strong and powerful” (unpublished memoirs), translated by Laura and Zvika Livnat, courtesy of Helen Wininger Livnat.

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The Holocaust in Volhynia:

Wendy Lower, “Facilitating Genocide: Nazi Ghettoization Practices in Occupied Ukraine, 1941–1942,” in Eric J. Sterling, ed.,
Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust
(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 120–44; Schmuel Spector,
The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews,
1941–1944, trans. Jerzy Michalowicz (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1990); and Spector, “The Jews of Volhynia and Their Reaction to Extermination,”
Yad Vashem Studies
15 (1983): 159–86.

Uncle Misha's Jewish Group:

Reuben Ainsztein,
Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe
(New York: Barnes & Noble, 1974); Interview with Seffi Hanegbi, March 7, 2012; Moshe Kahanovitch, “Moshe Gildenman—Partisan Commander of the ‘Yevgrupa,'”
Yad Vashem Bulletin
3 (1958): 13–14; Allan Levine,
Fugitives of the Forest
(Toronto: Stoddart, 1998); and Yuri Suhl, ed.,
They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe
(New York: Crown, 1967).

Motele Schlein:

Moshe Gildenman,
Motele: Der yunger partizaner
[Motele: The young partisan] (Paris: 1950).

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Frances Brent,
The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson
(New York: Atlas, 2009); Howard Reich and William Gaines, “How Nazis Targeted World's Finest Violins,”
Chicago Tribune
, August 19, 2001; Carla Shapreau, “The Stolen Instruments of the Third Reich,”
The Strad
, December 2009; and Willem de Vries,
Sonderstab Musik: Music Confiscations by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg under the Nazi Occupation of Europe
(Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996).

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Ålesund, 193

Amati, Nicolò, 217

Amati violins, 227, 288

    
of Wininger, 217, 219–23, 226, 227, 286, 292

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 72, 80, 147

“Ant, The,” 266–67

“Argonne Forest,” 132–33

Association of Vilna Immigrants, 7

Astrea,
77, 78, 80

Ataki, 204–7, 211

Atlantic,
82–92, 95, 102

Atlit, 91, 94, 103, 232

Auschwitz, 6, 9, 11–12, 69, 72, 110–115, 118, 119, 129, 138, 144–45, 181, 209

    
Auschwitz III, 121, 143–45, 175, 176

    
Birkenau,
see
Birkenau

    
evacuation of, 119, 136

    
Gleiwitz, 144

    
Main Camp, 110, 116, 123, 133, 291

Auschwitz orchestras, 116, 167

    
Auschwitz Main Camp, 105, 115–20, 123, 140

    
Auschwitz III, 143, 146

    
Birkenau Men's Camp, 120–36, 137, 140, 141, 145

    
Birkenau Women's Camp, 136–40

    
legacies of, 145–48

Austria, 63–65, 88, 138

 

Balfour Declaration, 44–45, 50

Bach, J. S., 18, 19, 32

Bannet, Louis, 127–28, 130, 133, 141–42

Baumann, Kurt, 22–23

Beau Bassin, 95

Beau Bassin Boys, 61, 99–101

Beau Bassin Prison, 96–101

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 19, 32, 99, 118, 144

Berg, 174–75

Bergen, 151, 152, 158, 191, 192, 193

Bergen-Belsen, 140, 176

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, 151, 157, 160–66, 192–93

Bergmann, Rudolf, 40

Berlin, Irving, 133, 134

Berlin Culture League,
see
Jewish Culture League

Berlin Philharmonic, 30, 283

Bessarabia, 199

Bettelheim, Bruno, 65, 66, 69, 72

Bielko, 259

Bielski brothers, 9

Birkenau, 110–13, 116, 123, 175

    
Czech Family Camp, 140–41

    
Gypsy Family Camp, 141–42

    
Men's Camp Orchestra, 120–36, 137, 140, 141, 145

    
Women's Camp, 134

    
Women's Camp Orchestra, 136–40

Bischop, Heinrich, 133, 135

blood libel, 17

Bloorman, Leon, 127–28

Böhm, Ernst, 19, 40

Børsum, Lise, 176–78

Borthen, Leif, 187

Boys in the Woods, 186, 188–90

Brahms, Johannes, 10, 19, 30, 53, 55

Bratislava, 77–80, 93, 94, 103

Brayer, Dov, 285–86

Brayer, Shevah, 285–87

Bredtveit Prison, 174, 175

Bremen State Orchestra, 155

Broad, Pery, 133, 141, 142

Bronken, Thorleif, 178, 179

Buchenwald, 11, 27, 69–73, 74, 93, 94, 103, 108, 176

Bukovina, 199, 200

Bull, Ole Bornemann, 157–59

    
violin of, 151, 159–61, 163, 166, 172, 191, 193–94, 217, 292

Busch, Adolf, 34

 

Călăraşi, 198

Camp News,
99, 101

Central Office for Jewish Emigration, 71

Christianity, 17

Christie, Amalie, 172, 177, 178, 181

Committee for the Transportation of Jews Oversees, 76, 77, 86

concentration camps, 107, 119, 176

    
Auschwitz,
see
Auschwitz

    
Berg, 174–75

    
Bergen-Belsen, 140, 176

    
Birkenau,
see
Birkenau

    
Buchenwald, 11, 27, 69–73, 74, 93, 94, 103, 108, 176

    
Dachau, 11, 27, 65–69, 70, 74, 93, 94, 103, 109, 116

    
official orchestras in, 116;
see also
Auschwitz orchestras

    
Sachsenhausen, 27, 136

    
Sydspissen, 168

    
Theresienstadt, 140, 142

    
Treblinka, 6

Council for German Jewry, 72

Cuba, 74

Culture League of German Jews,
see
Jewish Culture League

Cyprus, 232

Czech Family Camp, 140–41

Czernowitz, 199, 210, 229–31

Częstochowa, 30

 

Dachau, 11, 27, 65–69, 70, 74, 93, 94, 103, 109, 116

Danube, 77–78, 80–81

Davidovitz, Abraham, 147–48

Davidovitz, Devorah, 148

Davidovitz, Freddy, 147, 148

Davidovitz, Manya, 147, 148

Davidovitz, Shmuel, 148

Department of Public Information and Culture, 167

Dizengoff, Meir, 32, 33

Dniester River, 199, 204, 206–8, 211