Provides the critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. This book documents a scope of musical activities, ranging from orchestras and chamber groups to choirs, theatres, communal sing-songs, and cabarets, in some of the most important internment centres in Nazi-occupied Europe. Shirli Gilbert offers the first detailed, scholarly account in English of the role of music among the communities imprisoned under Nazism...[her work] provides a rich overview of music in the Holocaust based on world-wide research.