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Mozart
Mozart
Music ordered for performance by the orchestra at Auschwitz.
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... To accompany the daily hangings and shootings —
while the gas chambers over there belched fire and
smoke — they were ordered to play Mozart, the Mozart
you and I adore. ...Connected nodes
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Samuel Pisar
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Valery Giscard d’Estaing
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Auschwitz
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Charles de Gaulle
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Eichmann
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Nachman Suchowolski
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Lazar Suchowolski
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Benjamin Kaufman
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Melbourne
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Australia
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