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Surviving Auschwitz By Playing Jazz

MUSIC Posted: April 25, 2019 10:02 am

Writer Amanda Petrusich recounts the story of trumpeter Eric Vogel and the Ghetto Swingers, a band that played for officers and the Red Cross at Theresienstadt and, for a time, Auschwitz. Vogel later came to New York and became a design engineer and a jazz critic for Down Beat magazine. – The New Yorker

MUSIC Published: 04.22.19

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 04.22.19

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