TY  - BOOK
AU  - Byrne,Jaci
TI  - The music maker of Auschwitz IV: an incredible true story 
SN  - 9781922387820
U1  - 940.5472 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Newport, NSW
PB  - Big Sky Publishing
KW  - Jackson, Henry Barnes.
KW  - Byrne, Jaci.
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Music and the war
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, British
KW  - Prisoner-of-war camps
KW  - Poland
KW  - Silesia (Voivodeship)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Autobiographies
N2  - The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister to the Nazis in Auschwitz. When called up to fight in yet another World War, Drum Major Jackson promised his beloved wife Mabel that he would return to lead his band and play for her once more. In May 1940, he was captured at Dunkirk and interned in several German forced labour camps throughout Poland. Two years later he was transferred to Auschwitz IV, part of the notorious concentration camp complex where it is not widely known held Allied POWs. When his captors appointed Jackson their 'Kapellmeister' (man in charge of music), he seized the opportunity to provide entertainment for his fellow prisoners at rehearsals, and cover for escapees during concerts. Finally liberated in May 1945, malnourished and gravely ill, Jackson carried his secret war diary-an incredible expose on five years of life and death in Nazi concentration camps. THE MUSIC MAKER OF AUSCHWITZ IV, based on Jackson's diary, is written by his granddaughter. It is a thrilling testament to the resilience one man found in the darkest of times through his two greatest loves-music and the woman who waited for him
ER  -