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113: 189: 229: 46:. After being taken prisoner by the Germans in 1942, the Nazis burned all his possessions including his house, his documents and his scores. He was killed in the concentration camp of 58:, there survived two scores of his unpublished musical waltz ("Aeroplane waltz" and "Diana waltz"). The writer Elisa Springer, his maternal granddaughter, who wrote a book, 150: 224: 214: 209: 174: 169: 219: 234: 42:
Despite being unable to neither read nor write music, he whistled melodies which were then transcribed and performed in the outdoor kiosks of
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at the age of ninety, on September 20, 1942. Miraculously, thanks to a cousin, who had fled with his family to
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Austrian people who died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto
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Austrian people executed in Nazi concentration camps
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