Alma Rose: Haftlingsfrau Nr. 50831
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Alma Rose: Haftlingsfrau Nr. 50831
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0422
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08867m
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Prague, Czech Republic
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2013
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp126-133
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9788087211793
NotesArticle from the book 'Lest we forget: memory of totalitarianism in Europe' pp126-133
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Alma Rose was born into a very musical Jewish family in Vienna. Her father was concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic and her uncle was Gustav Mahler. She herself was an accomplished violinist. She married a Dutchman, and while attempting to flee through to Switzerland, was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. There she directed the women's orchestra of prisoners, and died in the concentration camp in 1944