Music of Another World
by Szymon Laks
translated by Chester A. Kisiel
Northwestern University Press, 2000
Paper: 978-0-8101-1802-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2180-5
Library of Congress Classification D805.P7L34313 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing description of a phenomenon seldom mentioned in the literature of the Holocaust: the presence of music among the crematoria. His story is a testament to the human spirit and to music itself, the beauty of which Laks and others honored even as the lives of so many were destroyed.
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