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From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall

Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: "I bless you. You'll survive this horror. You'll become a great pianist, and I'll be very proud of you." Born in 1917 into a musical Jewish famil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Filar, Marian
Other Authors: Patterson, Charles
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Prefatory Note; Prelude; Part 1: Old World; Early Training; Conservatory Days; Part 2: Fires of War; War Comes to Warsaw; Refugee in Lemberg; Musical Worker; The Warsaw Ghetto; Resistance; Part 3: Inside the Nazi Camps; Majdanek and Skarzysko Kamienna; Buchenwald and Schlieben; Liberation; Part 4: After the Storm; The Tables Are Turned; Searching for Pieces of the Past; A New Beginning in Germany; Walter Gieseking; Enter Sol Hurok; Farewell to Europe; Part 5: New World; Getting Started in a New Land; Managing without a Manager; Settling Down; Philadelphia; Return to Warsaw
  • IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z