On Thursday, April 20, 2023, the Shoah Memorial inaugurated its new exhibition "
The main use of music, still little known, was initiated by the camp authorities in 1933: it is a "forced" music, played on order by prison bands. It is a full-fledged tool in the process of bringing to heel and annihilation. Its second use is that made by the inmates in a spontaneous way: tolerated by the leaders of blocks or sometimes totally clandestine, this music participates in strategies of psychological survival and spiritual resistance to the concentration camp system.
The exhibition presents for the first time to the public numerous testimonies, instruments, scores and drawings made by detained women and men; as well as photographs taken by SS. It also discusses a few particular cases, notably the French internment camps that became transit camps or the ghetto-camp of Theresienstadt. And above all, it plays the music that resonated in the Dachau concentration camp system at Buchenwald and, more surprisingly, in the killing centers of Treblinka, Majdanek, Chełmno or in the Auschwitz complex.
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Free admission, on the first floor of the Shoah Memorial in Paris
