Well known violinist Alexander Stupel (born #OTD 1893) was the son of conductor Avrom Stupel. He went, with his violin, into the Kovno ghetto. He and his brother Boris were transported to Dachau. Boris survived but Alexander did not.
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Moravian-born composer and conductor Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born #OTD in 1897. The spread of Nazism in Austria forced the Jewish composer to settle in the US in 1938 and, in 1943, he became a naturalised citizen.
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German composer and conductor Walter Goehr was born #OTD in 1903. Forced as a Jew to seek work outside Germany after working for Berlin Radio in 1932, he was invited to become music director for the Gramophone Company (later EMI), so he moved to London.
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Pianist Fritz Meyer, born #OTD in 1906, performed concerts with the Dresden Judischer Kulturbund between 1935 and 1937. He and his brother Heinz played in a Dresden ensemble and were forced to live together in a "Jew's house". He died in Auschwitz 1943.
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Singer-song writer, classical guitarist and baritone Peter Sebastian Bach was born #OTD in 1896. On 25 May he was transferred to the Esterwegen concentration camp. He died on Sep 20 1940 at the killing center Hartheim.
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Musician Heinz Alisch was born #OTD in 1917. He graduated in 1937 but was already listed in Encyclopedia of Jews in Music. He was excluded from the RMK in 1935 and again in 1941. He lived on odd-jobs in Berlin and worked illegally as a musician.
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German conductor and composer Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt was born in Berlin #OTD in 1900. As conductor of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra after WWII, he advocated for the performance of music outlawed by the Third Reich.
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Teacher Bernard Krawczyk (born #OTD in 1889) conducted the Harmonia choir in Mikołów amongst many other community roles. He fought from Sep 1939 and was imprisoned in a number of camps in Poland and finally in Stutthof where he was shot dead in 1940.
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Poet Mordechai Gebirtig was born #OTD 1877 in Kraków as Markus Bertig. In March 1942, the Gebirtigs were moved to the Krakow ghetto, where the poet continued to perform and compose for the remaining months of his life.
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Julius Schloß (born #OTD in 1902) was Jewish composer working in Vienna who was briefly interned at the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 and was exiled to Shanghai. He later emigrated to the United States but found it difficult to find his feet musically.
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In 1942, pianist Norbert Stern (born #OTD 1922) left the Brussels Conservatory to go into hiding and was arrested with his family and sent to Auschwitz in Jan 1944. Not much later he was killed in Birkenau aged just 21 years old.
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The singer Bernhard Chrzelitzer was born on #OTD in 1902. He was deported to Aschwitz with his wife Gerda and died there on March 15 1943. Chrzelitzer was one of the soloist at the performance of "Balak and Bilam" in Dresden 1937.
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Composer Günter Raphael was born in Berlin #OTD in 1903. In 1939 he received a professional ban; his compositions were no longer published and were boycotted. For surviving the Nazis while managing tuberculosis he was awarded the Franz Liszt Award in 1948.
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