The Jewish trumpeter who entertained Nazis to survive the Holocaust

[Mark Stryker]

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-jewish-trumpeter-who-entertained-nazis-to-survive-the-holocaust

Edited April 22, 2019 by Mark Stryker

[lipi]

Coco Schumann, who played guitar in the Theresienstadt band with Vogel, wrote an autobiography that's well worth reading. Here's the English translation:

https://smile.amazon.com/Ghetto-Swinger-Berlin-Jazz-Legend-Remembers-ebook/dp/B01HX2UAZM/

[Mark Stryker]

12 hours ago, lipi said:

Coco Schumann, who played guitar in the Theresienstadt band with Vogel, wrote an autobiography that's well worth reading. Here's the English translation:

https://smile.amazon.com/Ghetto-Swinger-Berlin-Jazz-Legend-Remembers-ebook/dp/B01HX2UAZM/

Thanks for the tip.

[Big Beat Steve]

18 hours ago, Mark Stryker said:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-jewish-trumpeter-who-entertained-nazis-to-survive-the-holocaust

So THIS is the "Eric T. Vogel" who for a long time was the resident New York and/or USA in general) correspondent for the German JAZZ PODIUM jazz magazine in the post-war era, bringing regular news from the U.S. jazz scene to the readers. Vey interesting background info ...

[Brad]

Terrific article about how a passion can see you through the worst times imaginable. Amanda Petrusich writing is terrific and her articles always interesting; different, if you know what I mean.