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Reflecting on the experiences of then 20-year-old violin student Clare Galambos, this biography unfolds in 1944 Budapest amidst the harrowing first days after the Nazi occupation. The account details how the subject managed a difficult journey home only to be transported to Auschwitz Birkenau with the rest of her town's Jewish population. Galambos' time spent in slave labor is illustrated along with her return to Hungary after the war and her eventual departure for New Zealand. The recollection concludes with the subject's significant contributions to the country's music, touching on her career with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Drawing on memoirs, interviews, and historical research, this is an inspiring portrait of wartime survival and artistic achievement. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Twenty-year-old Hungarian Holocaust survivor Klara Galambos was a violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Her story is told by Wellington writer Sarah Gaitanos. Klara survived being arrested, confined to a ghetto, taken by train in shocking conditions to Auschwitz during which they stacked the dead against the door of the cattle cart. Later she was transferred to a slave labour camp. Clare and her aunt Rozsi were the only members of their family to survive. Later, Klara changed her name to Clare and along with Rosie (Rozsi) made her way to Wellington to start a new life away from the horrors they had endured. There Clare joined the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with which she played for 33 years.
This book has been extensively researched and is rich in detail. Claire's tale is told in a matter of fact way. The horrors dealt with are, as with all the holocaust stories, shocking every time. A little bit more editing would have helped the flow in places, but altogether this is a story of the part that the beauty of music and the focus of playing can have in the healing of the human spirit. A story that needed telling. ( )