Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection

Songs of the ghettos, concentration camps, and World War II partisan outposts

Individuals

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Joseph Wulf, identification photograph. Occupied Krakow, August 1940. Detail from registration form, below.
Joseph Wulf, identification photograph. Occupied Krakow, August 1940. Detail from registration form, below.
— Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Joseph Wulf’s registration form with the local authority in occupied Krakow, August 22, 1940. He lists his occupation as “agronomist.”
Joseph Wulf’s registration form with the local authority in occupied Krakow, August 22, 1940. He lists his occupation as “agronomist.”
— Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Joseph Wulf (left) in his study with Simon Wiesenthal. Berlin, July 1974.
Joseph Wulf (left) in his study with Simon Wiesenthal. Berlin, July 1974.
— Sachor Nicht vergessen. Erinnerung an Joseph Wulf (Berlin, 1989).
Sunbeams

Joseph Wulf sing “Sunbeams” (in Yiddish), written in Auschwitz III.

Listen to:

From Land to Land

Weingarten

Recording Source:

USHMM recorded sound archive/Henryk Broder Collection; Friedrich Scholz Collection

Related Links:

Joseph Wulf

Auschwitz (article in the USHMM’s Holocaust Encyclopedia)

“Final Solution” (article in the USHMM’s Holocaust Encyclopedia)

Wannsee (Wannsee Memorial Web site)

Wulf and Wannsee (site in English about Wulf and the creation of the Wannsee Memorial)

 

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