Oral history interview with Uri Bas and Kobi Luria

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.503.29 | RG Number: RG-50.934.0028

Overview

Interview Summary: Uri Bas discusses his musical family; the beginning of the war; being sent to the Terezin ghetto on one of the first transports when he was 13 years old; playing the violin and even continuing music lessons in the ghetto, especially harmony; hearing the music in Terezin played in different venues; a song that stayed with him over the years which is a ballad about a pirate [he sings some of it in Czech and reads his translation in Hebrew]; the music in evenings in the ghetto beginning at the end of 1942 to 1943 and which was dedicated to performances and musical entertainment, including cabaret evenings; and being sent to Auschwitz in the fall of 1944, when he was 16 years old.
Interviewee: Uri Bas
Kobi Luria
Interviewer: Professor David Bloch
Date: interview: 2000 January 23
Geography: creation: Kefar Sava (Israel)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Emilie Berendsen Bloch, Benjamin Bloch, and Ariel Bloch

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew
Genre/Form: Music. Songs and music
Extent: 1 sound cassette.

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Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Child concentration camp inmates. Concentration camp inmates as musicians. Concentration camps--Songs and music. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj) Jews--Music. Men--Personal narratives. Music--Performance. Musicians. Songs, Czech. Violinists. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Songs and music. World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
Geographic Name: Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945. Oswiecim (Poland) Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
Personal Name: Bas, Uri. Luria, Kobi.
Corporate Name: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Emilie Berendsen Bloch, Benjamin Bloch, and Ariel Bloch donated the archive of Professor David Bloch to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive

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