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Notes of Defiance: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Diana Blumenfeld, and the Question of Cultural Genocide

JL;DR SUMMARY Alia Saphier's article explores the concept of cultural genocide during the Holocaust, focusing on the impact on Jewish music through the lives of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Diana Blumenfeld. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureJewish MusicHolocaustNazi RegimeSurvivalResistanceCultural GenocideHistorical MemoryAnita Lasker WallfischDiana Blumenfeld

Places mentioned

Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"Following the end of the Second World War, in December 1945, the Central Historical Commission (CHC) was established in Munich by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone."
Breslau (Wrocław), Lower Silesia, Poland
"Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born in 1925 in Breslau (then part of Germany, now in Poland), the youngest of three sisters."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"As a prominent figure within the Jewish community of Warsaw, Diana already held a unique role in Jewish society."
Berlin, Germany
"Prior to the official outbreak of the war, Anita found a loophole that would soon be closed: she went to study in Berlin with a cellist named Leo Rostal."
Lublin, Poland
"Eventually, she found a way to resume lessons with a teacher who had the coded name of Eierbauch in her letters and the actual surname of Auerbach. Throughout her letters, Lasker-Wallfisch discusses the concerts that she performed in during this time. Soon after, her parents were deported to Ibisca, near Lublin."
Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
"Indeed, Diana and Pola worked together often until the latter's tragic death in the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp in November 1943."
Germany
"The bookstore owner had said that if she had refused it, he would have been compelled to throw it away."
Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
"As the arrival of the Red Army to Auschwitz drew closer, Anita was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen camp."

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