Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend

Willem de Haan

Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend

Willem de Haan

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Abstract

A legend that captures the imagination of audiences and shapes
representations of the Holocaust is that in Nazi concentration
camps Jewish musicians were forced to play a Tango of Death as
men, women and children made their way to the gas chambers.
This book traces the origins of this legend to a little known
concentration camp in Ukraine where musicians were forced to
perform a Jewish tango at executions before they themselves were
murdered. By reconstructing the creation of this legend, the book
shows how the

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Leiden; Boston
Publisher	Brill Publishers
Number of pages	144
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004525078
ISBN (Print)	9789004525061
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Name	Jews, Judaism, and the Arts
Publisher	Brill
Volume	3

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Keywords

Memory, Myth, Shoah, Death Camps, Camp orchestras, Executions, Auschwitz, Janowska, Ukraine, Lviv, Nuremberg trial, Soviet Propaganda, Wagner, Paul Celan, Fugue of Death

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