Music of Another World

By Szymon Laks

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810118025
• ISBN13: 9780810118027
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.7"