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Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Hebrew Union College<\/a><\/strong>
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New York, NY10012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free event, registration<\/a><\/strong> is required
The book Sing, Memory<\/em> is also available for purchas<\/b>e<\/a><\/strong> or can be purchased at the event.
Q&A, reception and book signing to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You are invited to join us for the book presentation of Sing, Memory The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camp<\/em>s by, Makana Eyre. In conversation with Bret Werb, Musicologist, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event aims to resurface and illuminate the extraordinary music created by prisoners of the Nazis. While most people know about official camp orchestras like those at Auschwitz, this repertoire is distinct as it was mostly created and performed in secret, for audiences of prisoners, and not under the duress of the SS. The recital portion of the program will feature rarely heard vocal works by the progressive workers\u2019 choir director (and future victim of the Reich) Rosebery d\u2019Arguto, and a selection of piano pieces by Buchenwald prisoner J\u00f3zef Kropi\u0144ski. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paris-based journalist Makana Eyre reading selections from his recent, critically acclaimed
biography, Sing Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the reading and a moderated Q&A, the program concludes with a recital of music by composers whose stories are featured in Sing, Memory<\/em>. The event takes place at Hebrew Union College and is open to all, although registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bret Werb, musicologist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., will lead a conversation with Mr. Eyre about Sing Memory\u2019s hero, Aleksander Kulisiewicz, a Polish songwriter, performer and scholar who spent over 5 years as a political prisoner in Sachsenhausen. The recitalists include pianist Jeanne Golan, vocal soloist Miryam-Khaye Seigel, and a chamber choir ensemble directed by Jon Holden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived the guards\u2019 reprisal were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau just a few weeks later. 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\u2019Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D\u2019Arguto tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Sing, Memory<\/em>, Makana Eyre recounts Kulisiewicz\u2019s extraordinary transformation from a Polish nationalist into a guardian of music and culture from the Nazi camps. Aided by an eidetic memory, Kulisiewicz was able to preserve for posterity not only his own songs about life at the camp, but the music and poetry of prisoners from a range of national and cultural backgrounds. They composed symphonies, organized clandestine choirs, arranged great pieces of music by illustrious composers, and gathered regularly over the course of the war to perform for one another. For many, music enabled them to resist, bear witness, and maintain their humanity in some of the most brutal conditions imaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the war, Kulisiewicz returned to Poland and assembled an archive of camp music, which he went on to perform in more than a dozen countries. He dedicated the remainder of his life to the memory of the Nazi camps. Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, Eyre tells this rich and affecting human story of musical resistance to the Nazi regime in full for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They composed symphonies, organized clandestine choirs, arranged great pieces of music by illustrious composers, and gathered regularly over the course of the war to perform for one another. For many, music enabled them to resist, bear witness, and maintain their humanity in some of the most brutal conditions imaginable.\nAfter the war, Kulisiewicz returned to Poland and assembled an archive of camp music, which he went on to perform in more than a dozen countries. He dedicated the remainder of his life to the memory of the Nazi camps. Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, Eyre tells this rich and affecting human story of musical resistance to the Nazi regime in full for the first time.\nAbout the author\nMakana Eyre is an author and journalist based in Paris. 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