Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection M Research Materials correspondence.

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Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection M Research Materials correspondence.

Contains primarliy correspondence between Aleksander Kulisiewicz and former camp prisoners concerning music, art, and other cultural aspects of life in various concentration camps and killing centers. Also included are testimonies, autobiographies, and biographies relating to various former camp prisoners, and theatrical scripts, librettos, musical scores, poems, and photographs from various camps. The dates range from the early 1960s to the late 1970s.

10 ft. 6 in. boxes.

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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...