WWII in Music

WWII in Music focuses on the meaning of music in the Kingdom of the Netherlands during WWII. Banned music, music from camps, propaganda songs, and other works dating from WWII can be heard again on this site. The music, articles, films, photos, and numerous documents tell of the power and powerlessness of music, of life and survival with music.

Gisela Wieberdink-Söhnlein (b. 1921)
Singing to give courage
Satirical texts quickly flowed from Gisela Söhnlein’s pen during her incarceration in the concentration camps of Vught, the Netherlands and Ravensbrück, Germany. She and her inseparable friend Hetty Voûte wrote and sang countless cabaret songs. “It was a task we gave ourselves. It was expected of us.”


Meet Alice Herz-Sommer, pianist, the oldest holocaust survivor in the world. "Music saved my life".
Source: www.aish.com. See also: Alice.  

Last update: January, 2012