The Violinist: Clare Galambos Winter - Holocaust Survivor
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Sarah Gaitanos
Klára Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Arrested and thrown into jail in the first days after the German occupation, she later managed to get home to Szombathely, was in the ghetto there, and was transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. After five weeks she and her aunt were among the thousand Hungarian women selected for slave labour at Allendorf. They returned to Hungary after the war, and in 1948 they both left Hungary for New Zealand, where Clare joined the fledgling national orchestra. As a long-serving member of the NZSO, she made a significant contribution to the musical life of this country. Clare passed away in 2014 and is buried in a Wellington cemetery. The Violinist draws on memoir, interviews, and historical research to tell a compelling story.
Product Details
Author: Gaitanos, Sarah
Year: January 2011
ISBN: 9780864736451
Format: Paperback | 280 pages
Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Publication City/Country: Wellington, New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs
Klára Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. Arrested and thrown into jail in the first days after the German occupation, she later managed to get home to Szombathely, was in the ghetto there, and was transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. After five weeks she and her aunt were among the thousand Hungarian women selected for slave labour at Allendorf. They returned to Hungary after the war, and in 1948 they both left Hungary for New Zealand, where Clare joined the fledgling national orchestra. As a long-serving member of the NZSO, she made a significant contribution to the musical life of this country. Clare passed away in 2014 and is buried in a Wellington cemetery. The Violinist draws on memoir, interviews, and historical research to tell a compelling story.
Product Details
Author: Gaitanos, Sarah
Year: January 2011
ISBN: 9780864736451
Format: Paperback | 280 pages
Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Publication City/Country: Wellington, New Zealand
Illustrations: Photographs
