%0 Book
%T Tango of Death: The Creation of a Holocaust Legend
%A Haan, Willem de
%S Jews, Judaism, and the Arts volume 3
%D 2023
%I Brill
%C Leiden
%@ 9789004525078
%G English
%F 1833381548
%O by Willem de Haan
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%O English
%X A legend that captures the imagination of audiences and shapes representations of the Holocaust is that in Nazi concentration camps Jewish musicians were forced to play a Tango of Death as men, women and children made their way to the gas chambers. This book traces the origins of this legend to a little known concentration camp in Ukraine where musicians were forced to perform a Jewish tango at executions before they themselves were murdered. By reconstructing the creation of this legend, the book shows how the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether
%L 15.24
%K Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
%K Ukraine
%K Lʹviv
%K Jews
%K Persecutions
%9 Text
%R 10.1163/9789004525078
%U https://brill.com/view/title/63409
%U https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525078