Music would help save Aleksander Kulisiewicz’s life, mentally transporting him out of the horror of the camp and giving him a reason to live
Among those watching the performance admiringly was a Polish prisoner called Aleksander Kulisiewicz . A singer and writer, Kulisiewicz had been arrested byafter Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and was sent to Sachsenhausen in May 1940. There, music would help save his life, mentally transporting him out of the horror of the camp and giving him a reason to live. He had been a wilful and precocious teenager, running away from a middle-class Catholic upbringing to perform in nightclubs.
Mr Eyre, an American journalist who lives in Paris, skilfully recounts the remarkable story of Kulisiewicz’s survival and of the archive he went on to build. He is a deft storyteller, with a limpid style, moving his characters to centre stage, aside, then back again. He weaves a compelling, well-informed narrative and illuminates the inner dynamics of the camp’s power structure.
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