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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.” Immediately after the Red Cross left and the film was finished, the band members were sent to the Auschwitz death camp.
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)