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56.128 Miles Traveled, 221.622 Miles To Go

Paris

FRANCE
1840 MILES

Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from a relative of Paul Challine, French POW.

Lille

FRANCE
1944 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical material from a relative of the British composer Norman Smith, deported by Japanese troops to Changi.

Miami, Florida

USA
10814 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of materials from a survivor, deported at age 12 to Theresienstadt. YIVO, acquisition of materials.

Modesto, California

USA
12887 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Meeting with relatives of Jim Hildreth, an American soldier captured by Japanese troops in Corregidor (Philippines).

Los Angeles, California

USA
13099 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical material at UCLA. Reseach into the videophonographic material produced by Steven Spielberg.

Groton, Massachusetts

USA
8801 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Meeting with the daughter of an American soldier who survived the sinking of the USS Houston, captured by Japanese troops and conscripted into the Kanchanaburi prison camp band.

Austin, Texas

USA
12028 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Meeting with the daughter of an American soldier captured by Japanese troops and author of the song "At the End of the Day".

Forth Leavenworth, Kansas

USA
10897 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Combined Arms Research Library, acquisition of paper material on American musicians prisoners of war.

Seattle, Washington

USA
11717 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of paper material on Japanese musicians interned civilians in the USA at the Desho Institute. Acquisition of paper material from the daughter of a man deported to Oflag VIIB Eichstätt.

Topaz, Utah

USA
12054 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from the Central Utah Relocation Center.

Saint Louis, Missouri

USA
10670 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of paper musical material from the son of man deported to Oflag VIIB Eichstätt.

Toronto, Ontario

CANADA
9301 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Toronto University, acquisition of materials of war prisoners musicians in Japanese camps and materials from Civilian Internment Camps.

Ottawa, Ontario

CANADA
8868 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: National Library, acquisition of materials from the Internment Camp 41 Ottawa and musical materials at Civilian Internment Camps.

Montreal, Quebec

CANADA
8681 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: McGill University, acquisition of musical materials at Canadian civilian internment camps of Hull, Farnham, Feller College, Sorel, Sherbrooke.

Hamilton, Ontario

CANADA
9386 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical materials at Archives & Research Collections Fonds at McMaster University Ontario.

Krakow

POLAND
1332 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of additional phonographic and musical material from a son of a Polish singer and composer deported to Sachsenhausen. Jagiellonian Library, acquisition of musical materials.

Warsaw

POLAND
1664 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from the heirs of a Polish composer deported to various forced labor camps.

Gdansk

POLAND
1915 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej, acquisition of musical materials.

Vilnius

LITHUANIA
2103 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: National Museum, acquisition of musical materials.

Riga

LATVIA
2361 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from relatives of a man deported to Riga Mezaparks. National Museum, acquisition of musical materials.

Jasenovac

CROATIA
861 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Research Institute, acquisition of musical materials.

Shanghai

CHINA
11141 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of paper musical material regarding the Shanghai Ghetto under the Republic of Nanchino.

Hong Kong

CHINA
14527 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Meeting with an expert on Japanese camps opened in China.

Singapore

SINGAPORE
12075 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical materials on prisoners of war in Japanese camps at the National Museum.

Sydney

AUSTRALIA
19813 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: University of Sydney, acquisition of materials on prisoners of war in Japanese camps and on enemy aliens at the Archive of Australian Judaica of the University.

Cologne

GERMANY
1727 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of phonographic and paper musical material from heirs of a man deported to Buchenwald.

Berlin

GERMANY
1745 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of paper musical material from a German soldier deported to Yugoslavia.

Heidelberg

GERMANY
1509 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of phonographic musical material from a man, head of the Dokumentations – und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma.

Cottbus

GERMANY
1609 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of paper material on German musicians of Sorbian ethnicity prisoners of war at the Sorabij Cultural Centre.

Bad Arolsen

GERMANY
1692 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of materials at the International Tracing Service.

Jerusalem

ISRAEL
2481 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: National Library, acquisition of materials from the B. Stonehill Collection.

Completed Journeys

Marseille

FRANCE
1211 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from relatives of a French POW.

London

UNITED KINGDOM
2212 MILES
5 DAYS

Objective: Research for precious musical manuscripts and phonographic materialat at the Wiener Holoaust Library, the Vaughan Williams Memoa Library, the King's College in Cambridge and the Imperial War Museum.

Pesaro + Venice + Mestre

ITALY
946 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Roberto Malini donated two paintings by David Weiss and Joseph Pressmane. In Mestre Giancarlo Coppola, son of the Italian composer Arturo Coppola, agreed to transfer all the musical and epistolary material of his father to the ILMC Foundation.

Kiryat Ono + Jerusalem

ISRAEL
2506 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting with Aviva Bar-On to gain insights into the compositions of Ilse Weber. Researches at Yad Vashem and the Hebrew University Library.

Gassin + Paris + Thionville

FRANCE
1672 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting with Orlaine Paquin Letourneur to retrieve her mother's compositions. In Paris, meeting Dominique Losay to retrieve his father's works. Meeting Alain Damais to retrieve all the material produced during the military captivity of Emile Damais for photographic reproduction. Researches at the Municipality of Thionville to retrieve all the songs collected by Paul Arma related to the concentrationary production of musicians.

Milan + Prague + České Budějovice

ITALY + CZECH REPUBLIC
1335 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Access to musical and literary material about Jewish musicians interned at Ferramonti di Tarsia. Meeting Ivan Karel to retriev music mtras produced by Rudolf Karel at Pankrac. Researches at the National Library of Prague [Clementinum] to retrieve music materials. Research at the South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice to retrieve the entire musical production created by the Czech Jew Rudolf Kende.

Florence

ITALY
802 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Gianna, Elena, and Cecilia Armellini Genazzani, respectively the daughters and granddaughter of the Italian Jewish violinist and composer David Genazzani, to retrieve an operetta written before deportation and film the meeting.

Amsterdam + Almere + Utrecht + Brussels

NETHERLANDS + BELGIUM
2286 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Researches at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam to obtain rare phonographic material on original mechanical supports. Researches at the Jazzarchief in Amsterdam to recover historic disc recordings made before the War by Dutch Jewish jazz musicians. Researches at the Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust en Genocidestudies (NIOD). Meeting in Almere the singer Mirjam Krieg, daughter of the Dutch Jewish choir director and composer Hans Krieg, to retrieve her father's material. Meeting Jeannot Gillis to achieve musical and photographic material and phonographic recordings of his father.

Ramat Gan + Jerusalem + Kibbutz Netser Sereni + Natanya

ISRAEL
2506 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Hilde Zimche Gruenbaum, a Jewish violinist and copyist of the women's orchestra at Birkenau directed by Alma Rosè. Meeting the poet, writer, and painter Jewish Dita Kraus, who remembered several youth songs created at Theresienstadt, and recording valuable phonographic material.

Padua + Klagenfurt + Vienna + Nuremberg + Freiburg + Amsterdam + The Hague + Zuidhorn

ITALY + AUSTRIA + GERMANY + NETHERLANDS
1938 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Researches at Internment Museum. Meeting Bozo Hartmann, son of the Austrian choir director Vladimir Hartmann, to achieve musi material and the notebook of choral pieces performed by the Slavic choir of deportees and conducted in the camp by his father. Meeting Christiane Fennesz-Juhasz to achieve the  phonographic collection on the music of Sinti and Roma in the camps.  Meeting Peter Koppitz to achieve an orignl manuscript for male choir.

Krakow + Oświęcim + Budapest + Linz

POLAND + HUNGARY + AUSTRIA
1920 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Christof Kulisiewicz, son of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, to retrieve folders of autograph musical material.
Auschwitz Museum to retrieve the score "Ich bin heute, ja so vediebt". Researches in Budapest and at the Institute for Musicology/Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Scanning of the entire musical production of the young German composer Helmut Hilpert.

Treviso

ITALY
956 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Giancarlo Coppola, son of the Italian composer Arturo Coppola to retrieve manuscripts and reels.

Prague

CZECH REPUBLIC
1335 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Ivan Karel to retrieve the entire collection of light blue tissue paper and notebook sheets on which his father Rudolf clandestinely drafted numerous musical works.

Sammichele di Bari

ITALY
108 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting the Marinelli-Savino family to retrieve the musical manuscripts written by Cesare Savino in the Huyton Camp and his violin.

Paris + Pontcharra-sur-Breda

FRANCE
2653 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Elizabeth Herbin, daughter of the French pianist and composer René Herbin to retrieve manuscripts of her father.
Meeting Nelly Quercia, daughter of the composer Corporal Paul Chenevier to retrieve numerous musical manuscripts, notebooks full of music, and typewritten texts written by her father in the Stalag. 

Omaha, Nebraska

USA
10996 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Researches at libraries and documentation centers about Jewish immigration to the USA after the War.

Buchenwald, Krakow

GERMANY + POLAND
2034 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Researchto the Buchenwald Memoial.
Meeting Christof Kulisiewicz – son of the Polish musician Aleksander Kulisiewicz, to retrieve literary and photographic material concerning his father and the manuscript of his song "Le Crucifié" written in 1944 at Sachsenhausen.

Rome

ITALY
503 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting at the Luigi Sturzo Institute in Rome, the director of the Association of Italian Cultural Institutions (A.I.C.I.).
Access to archives and documentation centers on the Italian Resistance.

Roncole Verdi + Genoa

ITALY
1132 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Alberto, son of Giovannino Guareschi to retrieve phonographic and paper musical material and scan Guareschi's production.
Meeting Paolo Orsolino, son of the guitarist and composer Federico Orsolino to retrieve works for guitar and paper musical material.

Paris

FRANCE
1840 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Jean-Louis Haguenauer, son of the French Jewish composer Yves Haguenauer to retrieve the musical manuscripts written in military captivity by his father. 

Rome

ITALY
503 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Acquisition of 75 paintings by Aleksandrowaki, Yehuda Bacon, Shimon Balitsky, Henri Epstein, Simcha Nornberg, Jakob Vassover, and other Jewish artists persecuted during the Shoah.

Genoa + Paris + Bologna + Pesaro

ITALY + FRANCE
1940 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting Paolo Orsolino, son of the guitarist and composer Federico Orsolino to retrieve a complete and systematic scan of the entire guitar repertoire produced by Orsolino during his internment. Meeting Frederic De Foucaud, son of the French composer Max De Foucaud, to retrieve the original manuscripts, original epistolary and photographic materials.
Meeting Jean-Christophe Lannoy, son of the French composer Robert Lannoy, to retrieve his original manuscripts.
Meeting Roberto Malini, to retrieve 14 paintings by persecuted Jewish and Lithuanian artists.

Washington DC + New York

USA
9488 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Researches and purchasing rare essays and unique volumes of doctoral theses on the subject.
Meeting Bret Werb, head of the USHMM's Music Department to access significant documents and musical materials.
Researches at the Library of Congress, achieving from the Smithsonian Institute of Washington DC a copy of musical works written by the American trumpeter and composer Maceo Jefferson.
Researches at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on works written by persecuted or deported Jewish musicians during World War II. Researches at the New York Public Library to achieve the German Jewish composer Eric Itor Kahn’s works.

Bologna + Milan

ITALY
1037 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: In Bologna library purchases and researches on the Jewish pianist and composer Mario Finzi at the G.B. Martini Conservatorium.
Researches at the Library of the G. Verdi Conservatorium on the Ukrainian composer Petro Yevhenovych Topciy.
Meeting Deborah and Giovanni Frisone, relatives of the painter and draftsman Ferruccio Francesco Frisone, to retrieve his diary and 112 drawings made by his father during the internment. 

Bari

ITALY
79 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Reconstruction of the score of L’Assedio dei Sogni for piano, written by the Italian prisoner of war composer Raoul Maccari.
Acquisition of ten Shellac 78 rpm discs containing phonographic recordings made by prisoner of war musicians interned during World War II at the Zonderwater Camp (South Africa).

Berlin

GERMANY
1608 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Acquisition of musical works written during and after the deportation to Theresienstadt by the Czech Jewish composer Erich Orlický (pseudonym of Erich Adler).

Rome

ITALY
503 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Meeting to retrieve a painting by Jakob Vassover.

Bari

ITALY
79 MILES
5 DAYS

Description: Recovering, safeguarding, and archiving the musical corpus recorded over decades by Emanuele Pacifici.