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144: 36: 274:." Rokita was one of many sadistic villains at the camp; "Choice sadists and various scum of the Nazi death machine were in the Janowska concentration camp. Many of these people suffered from pathological perversions...The most diverse ways of killing people were used in this camp. Each Nazi tried to outdo his colleagues by discovering his own special killing method." 335:: "The most terrible day was the last one, when 25,000 Jews were shot...This operation ended with the last orchestra coming to the pit; they were undressed, they laid down their instruments; they went into the pit, but before that they played the 'Tango of Death' for themselves." 416:"Members of the orchestra at the Janowska concentration camp perform while standing in a circle around the conductor, Yacub Mund, in the Appelplatz [roll call area]. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" 143: 277:
The 40-person orchestra consisted of the best Lviv musicians, Jewish prisoners of the camp, some of whom were famous within Europe or even world-famous. The violinist, composer, conductor
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carried out at the beginning of July, the "Jewish Worker Camp", later known as the Janowska concentration camp, began to form under the leadership of the German administration by the
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The initiator of the compulsory organization of musician-prisoners in the orchestra was the deputy commandant of the Janowska camp,
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held the position of musical director of city theaters, was appointed the head of the orchestra. Among the orchestra musicians
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A photo of the orchestra, which was used to illustrate Nazi crimes at the
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The Janowska concentration camp: What we know and don't know
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Forced Jewish orchestra at the Janowska concentration camp
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Tango of death : the creation of a Holocaust legend
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A photo of the orchestra, which was used to illustrate Nazi crimes at the Nuremberg trials
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Jewish
Janowska concentration camp
Lviv, Ukraine
Lviv
Lviv pogrom
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"marching groups" of the OUN
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Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
SS-Untersturmführer
Richard Rokita
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