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Written by Johann Esser and Wolfgang Langhoff, two inmates of Borgermoor.

The Soldiers of the Moor stood as an international emblem of resistance for prisoners and refugees.

Early choral arrangement written in 1935.

As prisoners were disseminated throughout other camps, the song followed and became an emblem of resistance. Ernst Busch, a political refugee from the Nazis and a singer/actor, recorded an arrangement of this song by Hanns Eisler.

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The Gestapo, police, and other government organizations took a strong stance against the swing movement, and even interrogated ‘swing boys’ and girls. Some were tortured and put in detention.

Many of the Swingjugend were sent to concentration camps; those under 18 were generally placed in the Youth Detention Camps (Jugendschutzlager).

Inside the Jugendshutzlager, the Swing Kids supported each other, and sang their songs in secret when they could. Inside the munitions factories they were forced to work at, they were able to sing and play scrap-made instruments since it wasn’t run by the SS.

The Swing Boys quickly became isolated from other prisoners out of arrogance while the Swing Girls sang mostly for the other prisoners. They took precautions, like putting sheets over windows, so they would not be heard.

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The Mills Brothers - Sweet Sue (Just You) (1932)

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Swingjugend: Provided a form of intellectual resistance for prisoners.

Soldiers of the Moor: Provided a form of resistance that put the prisoners in no harm and gave them hope.

The Violin Restorer: Keeps the history of violinists in the holocaust alive.

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On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, an emotional concert was given under the title Violins of...

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‘“If you have very good ears and you are listening, it’s unbelievable what you can hear when these violins are played,” Weinstein said. “You can hear the suffering.”’

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A Jewish partisan commander, Gildenmen, discovered a little boy named Motele in the woods after he fled from his home following his parents' death. He joined the Jewish Outfit and became a spy (of sorts) in Ovruch in 1943. He gained popularity in the village from his violin playing after a German officer brought him to play in a restaurant. Later, Motele snuck bombs into the restaurant in his violin case and blew it up, killing multiple Germans. Motele Schlein died at the age of 14 in a German bombardment where Gildenmen took possession of his violin and kept it in his family for decades. The violin was restored and placed inside the Maltz Museum’s Violins of Hope exhibition.

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Amnon Weinstein,a Collector and Restorer of Violins, learned how to craft violins from his father, and made many violins for famous violinists. He took over his father’s shop following his death and in 1996 began to locate and restore violins played by Jews in the Ghettos during the Holocaust. One of the violins he was given by the grandson of a Jewish partisan commander in Ukraine had a very resistance-based backstory. This project began in 1996 at Shlomo Hamelech Street, Tel Aviv.

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‘The Soldiers of the Moor (Die Moorsoldaten)’  was a coded German song written by prisoners of concentration camps. The inmates of Borgermoor wrote it to sing during their forced march to and from the moor, where they extracted peat. The Nazi guars forced them to sing, and they wrote this song as a retaliation as it was coded with anti-Nazi text (something the Nazis failed to realize).

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Swing Cliques, also known as Swingjugend (Swing Youth), was a group of teenagers and young adults who had liberal attitudes and took joy in Swing and Jazz music.  Swingjugend originated in 1935-36 in Hamburg, Germany and grew in popularity during the beginning of the second World War.The Swingjugend rejected Nazi state and militarism, which is why Nazis were affronted by them and tried to restrict their rights. They were just like typical teenagers, not worrying about curfews or bans on things such as dancing or music. They became a political protest movement during the first years of the war due to an influx of members. They believed in love, self-determination, non-conformity, independence, and liberalism.

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“The salt mine where we worked had really nice acoustics.  One of us played on the cartridges – these were like wooden boxes, and he would play drums with some sticks.  We improvised all sorts of things.  Sometimes it sounded horrible.  Either way, we had successfully gotten through our so-called breakfast break.  It was a survival strategy.” -Gunter Discher