An overview of the fate of Jewish creative and performing musicians in Nazi Germany and the subsequent careers of musical emigres. Considers the effects on Jewish composers of and performers of the 1935 Race Laws and of Kristallnacht. Provides thumbnail sketches of the effects of the Nazi regime on personalities like Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Weill, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Viktor Ullmann, Stefan Weintraub, Franz Waxman.