Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection M Research Materials Ilustracje Brzezinka [Illustrations from Brzezinka by Francois Reisz] drawings photographs.

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Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection M Research Materials Ilustracje Brzezinka [Illustrations from Brzezinka by Francois Reisz] drawings photographs.

Contains original sketches of the depicting the Birkenau orchestra playing for the return of the commandos and the Birkenau "Musikstube." Also includes a photo reproduction of a collection of art and verse given as a gift to a fellow prisoner named Maria for her nameday.

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Reisz, Francois.

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Kulisiewicz, Aleksander Tytus, 1918-1982

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Aleksander (Alexander) Kulisiewicz (1918-1982) was born in Kraków, Poland in 1918. He was a law student in German-occupied Poland when, in October 1939, he was denounced for antifascist writings, arrested by the Gestapo, and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin. An amateur singer and songwriter, Kulisiewicz composed 54 songs during more than five years of imprisonment at Sachsenhausen. After Russian troops liberated the camp on May 2, 1945, he remembered his songs, as well a...