Herbert Zipper Full Testimony | Jewish Survivor | USC Shoah Foundation
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Composer Herbert Zipper, who later became a public arts activist in the United States, was born in Vienna in 1904. He studied under Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel at the Austrian State Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, and became active in Vienna’s underground political cabaret. Soon after the Nazis annexed Austria in March of 1938, Zipper was arrested and deported to Dachau, one of the first concentration camps created by the Nazis. In Dachau, Zipper and other musicians fashioned instruments out of scrap material and held secret concerts in the latrines. He co-composed “Dachau Song,” which, as the horror of World War II unfolded, made its way across Europe as a satirical anthem of resistance.
Read more about Zipper’s life here: https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2022/05/33491-music-and-poetry-herbert-zipper-reached-humanity-dachau
Read more about efforts to revive the music of composers suppressed by the Nazi Regime here: https://sfi.usc.edu/news/2022/05/33496-new-generation-embraces-music-nazis-tried-stifle
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