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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 223 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. “When Adolf Hitler created the model camp at Theresienstadt for the better-known of Europe’s Jewish transportees, he gathered together many of the continent’s finest musicians. This book examines the associations, compositions, performances (opera, orchestras, chamber music, recitals) and above all, the people in Terezi´n. The Protectorate or Terezin Ghetto was not as bad as the concentration camps and it held Czech Jews and the best musicians of the times. After 3 1/2 years, in the fall of 1944, 1,000 Jews were transported from Terezin to Auschwitz to the gas chamber.” [WorldCat summary]. Previous owner’s small, round blind-stamp on lower fore-edge corner of half-title page, else an as new copy. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy in glossy dust-jacket. Near fine [blind-stamp] in fine dust-jacket.