Known as Germany's most famous swing guitarist, the now 91 year old Coco Schumann has played with jazz greats like Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong. Yet until the 1980s none of his colleagues knew of his experience in the Holocaust. Coco didn't speak about "it." Not even his closest friends knew what had happened to him except for the barest of facts Coco volunteered. "I was in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz," he would say and leave it at that. But then on a ...
The Ghetto Swinger: The Incredible Story of Jazz Star Coco Schumann Who Played in Auschwitz For His Life
The Huffington Post - 12 Jan 2016 21:29
Known as Germany's most famous swing guitarist, the now 91 year old Coco Schumann has played with jazz greats like Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong. Yet until the 1980s none of his colleagues knew of his experience in the Holocaust. Coco didn't speak about "it." Not even his closest friends knew what had happened to him except for the barest of facts Coco volunteered. "I was in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz," he would say and leave it at that. But then on a ...
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