num_pages: 138
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Music of Another World
titlecomplete: Music of Another World (Jewish Lives)
genres: Holocaust, Nonfiction, Music, History
ratings_count: 45
series: Jewish Lives
publisher: Northwestern University Press