The Jews in the Band: Anders Army's Special Troups

Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies

Fascinating insights about Jews in the entertainment troupes of the Anders Army in WW2

<p> Speaker: Dr Beth Holmgren (Duke University). Beth Holmgren shares fascinating insights about Jews in the entertainment troupes of the Anders Army. She will focus on the history of the most enduring product of a cooperation between Alfred Schütz, a Jewish composer, and Feliks Konarski, a writer, who together created the iconic &#x27;Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino&#x27; (The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino), memorializing Polish losses in the taking of the monastery of this fortress held by German troups.</p>

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