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Surviving Auschwitz By Playing Jazz by Artsjournal1

Writer Amanda Petrusich recounts the story of trumpeter Eric Vogel and the Ghetto Swingers, a band that played for officers and the Red Cross at Theresienstadt and, for a time, Auschwitz. Vogel later came to New York and became a design engineer and a jazz critic for Down Beat magazine. " The New Yorker

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM on April 25, 2019

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