Episode 2 features another previous guest of Victor E, Matt Davenport. In this episode he visits with Hollie about his research titled “Music, Silence, and Violence: Soundscapes and Collective Memory of Polish Ghettos.” Matt unpacks the ways in which music, silence, and the sounds of violence shaped everyday interactions of Jewish people in the ghettos as well as the role of the soundscapes in the way in which survivors remember the ghettos.
Matt’s previous episode on Victor E.’s first season also discusses the Holocaust, with a focus on the Holocaust in the East. Check that out here: https://wordpress.com/post/victorehistory.com/71
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Selected Bibliography:
Bruk, Selene. “Oral History Interview with Selene Bruk.” Interviewed by Arnold Band. March 6, 1983. The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503582.
Carolyn Birdsall, Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933-1945, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Flam, Gila. Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto 1940-45. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Nowak, Anja. Violent Space: The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023.
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