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100 1 _aByrne, Jaci,
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe music maker of Auschwitz IV :
_ban incredible true story /
_cJaci Byrne.
264 1 _aNewport, NSW :
_bBig Sky Publishing,
_c2021.
300 _a308 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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520 _aThe 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.
600 1 0 _aJackson, Henry Barnes.
_9134455
600 1 0 _aByrne, Jaci.
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650 0 _aPrisoners of war
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xMusic and the war.
_9134456
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_vPersonal narratives, British.
_918387
650 0 _aPrisoner-of-war camps
_zPoland
_zSilesia (Voivodeship)
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_9134457
655 7 _aBiographies.
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655 7 _aAutobiographies.
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