Music Used as Resistance and Defiance
During the Holocaust, there was a sense of hopelessness; although there was one thing that brought people together equally as well as it was used to split people apart. This was music. Music was used as a sort of cultural time capsule. It allowed the prisoners of the Third Reich to feel a sense of hope and cultural reconnection, but music was a double edged sword. It could also be used by the Germans to promote their genocidal ways to a wider group of individuals.
Nostalgic appeal
The music that the Jewish prisoners listened to was a way they escaped from the horrors of imprisonment; it was a way for them to remember their past lives. Music was an important way for the prisoners to preserve their religious culture and independency …show more content…
This camp [Terezin] was a musically oriented camp, using the music they played to manipulate, and morph the minds of the prisoners ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). “‘There’s been much written about how the Nazis used art and culture in Terezin in order to present a different picture than what was really happening,” ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). Hitler’s entire theme for his regime was all based around the music and art that flooded the culture of his rule ("Music of the Holocaust"). “The Nazis gave Terezin special status as a model camp. There, the prisoners usually initiated musical activities,” ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). “And yet Terezin, according to Norbert Fryd, if not the hell that Auschwitz was, was an anteroom to hell,” ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). Even though Terezin was a great sample of how music was used during the Holocaust against the Jews, it was hardly the only example. Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe,” (“United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”). It was mostly used to make the Jews feel they were inferior to everyone else; this only made the Jews revolt
During the Holocaust, there was a sense of hopelessness; although there was one thing that brought people together equally as well as it was used to split people apart. This was music. Music was used as a sort of cultural time capsule. It allowed the prisoners of the Third Reich to feel a sense of hope and cultural reconnection, but music was a double edged sword. It could also be used by the Germans to promote their genocidal ways to a wider group of individuals.
Nostalgic appeal
The music that the Jewish prisoners listened to was a way they escaped from the horrors of imprisonment; it was a way for them to remember their past lives. Music was an important way for the prisoners to preserve their religious culture and independency …show more content…
This camp [Terezin] was a musically oriented camp, using the music they played to manipulate, and morph the minds of the prisoners ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). “‘There’s been much written about how the Nazis used art and culture in Terezin in order to present a different picture than what was really happening,” ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). Hitler’s entire theme for his regime was all based around the music and art that flooded the culture of his rule ("Music of the Holocaust"). “The Nazis gave Terezin special status as a model camp. There, the prisoners usually initiated musical activities,” ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). “And yet Terezin, according to Norbert Fryd, if not the hell that Auschwitz was, was an anteroom to hell,” ("Verdi 's "Requiem"). Even though Terezin was a great sample of how music was used during the Holocaust against the Jews, it was hardly the only example. Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe,” (“United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”). It was mostly used to make the Jews feel they were inferior to everyone else; this only made the Jews revolt