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The Ghetto Swingers were a jazz band organized in the Nazi ghetto Theresienstadt. The Jewish prisoners organized in the ghetto a lively cultural scene including jazz music. On 28 September, 1944, the Ghetto Swingers participated in the Nazi propaganda film “Theresienstadt: A Documentary Film from the Jewish Settlement Area” which is known under its erroneous name “The Fuehrer gave the Jews a city.”
Here is the founding document with linked names from holocaust.cz for those who want to add: http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/obj...
Coco Schumann, Kurt Maier, Rita Gokkes, Erich Vogel, and Martin Roman were among the survivors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Roman
The murdered included: Fritz Weiss (clarinet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Weiss Kurt Bauer (percussion) Fritz (Frantisek?) Goldschmidt (guitar) Langer (tenor sax) Fr. Mautner (trombone)