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The collection contains correspondence, certificates, booklets, flyers, and photographs, related to the musical career of Igo Krischer (1906-1993), a Polish jazz drummer, singer, and composer, and to his activities during World War II, which he spent in exile in Iran and Palestine. Included is correspondence from his family who remained in occupied Poland; photographs of family, friends, and bandmates, ...

Autobiografie van een liefhebber van brass-bandmuziek en jazz. 78 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

The papers consist of five photographs of Miroslav (Fred) Schiller, his friends, and fellow members of a jazz band; identification cards; visas; applications; and a bill passed by the United States House of Representatives for the relief of Fred Schiller.

Contains documents pertaining to Henry Baigelman's participation in a jazz band called the "Happy Boys" that performed in displaced persons camps in Germany after WWII. Includes handwritten sheet music, song lyrics in Yiddish, certificates acknowledging group's performances, documentation stating that Henry Baigelman had been interned at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a copy of a Passierschein ...

Originalausg. 233 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Miroslav (Fred) Schiller was born on Jan. 3, 1910 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). He became a jazz musician and traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. He returned to Zagreb to witness the beginnings of the Nazi rise to power. Shortly after, he fled to Split, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) which was in the Italian zone of occupation. Because they were in danger of deportation, his parents ...

Part 1, Jewish American woman receives award contrasted to those who live in "ghetto," shots of Jewish neighborhoods, people in store picking out material, Jewish merchant behind counter, Hebrew signs, shots of frenzied activity of Stock Exchange, CU of money being counted. LaGuardia gesturing at man at desk, going up ladder, CU as he makes speech. Background music throughout is jazz swing.