Auschwitz Violin by Maria Anglada

Author:Maria Anglada [Anglada, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781849019811
Google: bpkuLhs0pP0C
Amazon: 1849019819
Publisher: Corsair
Published: 2010-11-04T04:00:00+00:00

Ah, our musicians’ hands have been severed, our singers’ mouths barred with iron.

The sweet-voiced violin lies on the ground.

—YANNIS RITSOS

Inventory of Clothes and Other Objects Collected at the Lublin and Auschwitz Concentration Camps, Addressed to the Reich Minister of Economy (Fragment)

Men’s clothing, used (not counting white clothing) 97,000 items

Women’s clothing, used (idem) 76,000 items

Women’s silk underwear 89,000 items

Total number of wagons 34

Cloth: 400 wagons, equivalent to 2,700,000 kilos

Eiderdown feathers: 130 wagons, equivalent to 270,000 kilos

Women’s hair: 1 wagon, equivalent to 3,000 kilos

Old material: 5 wagons …

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Total 2,973,000 kilos

536 wagons

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Total wagons 570 wagons

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