Henny Durmashkin sings
Creator(s)
- Henny Durmashkin Gurko (Performer)
- Bret Werb (Interviewer)
Scope and Content
Henny Durmashkin (born 1923) recorded on February 11, 1999 in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Henny Durmashkin Gerko sang Hebrew songs from the ghetto with Leonard Bernstein on piano in Munich in 1948. Bernstein conducted the ‘Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra’ — a small group of survivors sponsored by the Joint Distribution Committee -- which traveled to displaced persons camps to perform for fellow survivors. She had studied at the Conservatory of Music in Vilna and her brother, Vladimir Dumashkin, a child prodigy, became Vilna’s Philharmonic conductor at 25. He helped organize the cultural life in the Vilna ghetto, but did not survive the war. Henny was liberated on a death march in 1945.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music.
- Englewood Cliffs (N.J.)
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians.
- Concentration camps--Songs and music.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music.
- Women musicians.
- Songs, Hebrew.
- Women singers.
- Ex-concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Songs and music.
Genre
- Music.
- Recorded Sound
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