A path through pivotal places and encounters to rediscover forgotten musical legacies. Each stop unveils a story, bridging past and present, and celebrates human resilience through music.
Your participation is the key to unlock these stories, making each discovery possible.
to the Future Memories Project:
Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from a relative of Paul Challine, French POW.
Objective: Acquisition of musical material from a relative of the British composer Norman Smith, deported by Japanese troops to Changi.
Objective: Acquisition of materials from a survivor, deported at age 12 to Theresienstadt. YIVO, acquisition of materials.
Objective: Meeting with relatives of Jim Hildreth, an American soldier captured by Japanese troops in Corregidor (Philippines).
Objective: Acquisition of musical material at UCLA. Reseach into the videophonographic material produced by Steven Spielberg.
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.
Objective: Meeting with the daughter of an American soldier captured by Japanese troops and author of the song "At the End of the Day".
Objective: Combined Arms Research Library, acquisition of paper material on American musicians prisoners of war.
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.
Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from the Central Utah Relocation Center.
Objective: Acquisition of paper musical material from the son of man deported to Oflag VIIB Eichstätt.
Objective: Toronto University, acquisition of materials of war prisoners musicians in Japanese camps and materials from Civilian Internment Camps.
Objective: National Library, acquisition of materials from the Internment Camp 41 Ottawa and musical materials at Civilian Internment Camps.
Objective: McGill University, acquisition of musical materials at Canadian civilian internment camps of Hull, Farnham, Feller College, Sorel, Sherbrooke.
Objective: Acquisition of musical materials at Archives & Research Collections Fonds at McMaster University Ontario.
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.
Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from the heirs of a Polish composer deported to various forced labor camps.
Objective: Muzeum II Wojny Swiatowej, acquisition of musical materials.
Objective: National Museum, acquisition of musical materials.
Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from relatives of a man deported to Riga Mezaparks. National Museum, acquisition of musical materials.
Objective: Research Institute, acquisition of musical materials.
Objective: Acquisition of paper musical material regarding the Shanghai Ghetto under the Republic of Nanchino.
Objective: Meeting with an expert on Japanese camps opened in China.
Objective: Acquisition of musical materials on prisoners of war in Japanese camps at the National Museum.
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.
Objective: Acquisition of phonographic and paper musical material from heirs of a man deported to Buchenwald.
Objective: Acquisition of paper musical material from a German soldier deported to Yugoslavia.
Objective: Acquisition of phonographic musical material from a man, head of the Dokumentations – und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma.
Objective: Acquisition of paper material on German musicians of Sorbian ethnicity prisoners of war at the Sorabij Cultural Centre.
Objective: Acquisition of materials at the International Tracing Service.
Objective: National Library, acquisition of materials from the B. Stonehill Collection.
Objective: Acquisition of musical materials from relatives of a French POW.
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.
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.
Description: Meeting with Aviva Bar-On to gain insights into the compositions of Ilse Weber. Researches at Yad Vashem and the Hebrew University Library.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Description: Meeting Giancarlo Coppola, son of the Italian composer Arturo Coppola to retrieve manuscripts and reels.
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.
Description: Meeting the Marinelli-Savino family to retrieve the musical manuscripts written by Cesare Savino in the Huyton Camp and his violin.
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.
Description: Researches at libraries and documentation centers about Jewish immigration to the USA after the War.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Description: Acquisition of musical works written during and after the deportation to Theresienstadt by the Czech Jewish composer Erich Orlický (pseudonym of Erich Adler).
Description: Meeting to retrieve a painting by Jakob Vassover.
Description: Recovering, safeguarding, and archiving the musical corpus recorded over decades by Emanuele Pacifici.
