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From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall From Buchenwalad to Cannegie Hall Marian Filar and Charles Patterson University Press of Mississippi / Jackson Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography Photographs courtesy of Marian Filar www.upress.state.ms.us Copyright © 2002 by Marian Filar and Charles Patterson All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 4 3 2 1 7 Library of Congress Cataloging'in-Publication Data Filar, Marian, 1917- From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall / Marian Filar and Charles Patterson. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-57806-419-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Filar, Marian, 1917- 2. Pianists—Poland—Biography. I. Patterson, Charles. II. Title. ML417.F43 A3 2002 786.2'092—dc21 [B] 2001026907 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available To my dear parents and other family members murdered in the Holocaust. . . and to my sister and brothers who survived This page intentionally left blank Contents Prefatory Note ix Prelude xi Parti: Old World Early Training 3 Conservatory Days 13 Part 2: Fires of War War Comes to Warsaw 27 Refugee in Lemberg 34 Musical Worker 45 The Warsaw Ghetto 56 Resistance 67 Part 3: Inside the Nazi Camps Majdanek and Skarzysko Kamienna 81 viii Contents Buchenwald and Schlieben 94 Liberation 105 Part 4: After the Storm The Tables Are Turned 119 Searching for Pieces of the Past 125 A New Beginning in Germany 133 Walter Gieseking 144 Enter Sol Hurok 154 Farewell to Europe 164 Part 5: New World Getting Started in a New Land 175 Managing without a Manager 185 Settling Down 195 Philadelphia 206 Return to Warsaw 217 Index 225 inefatgony note For a very long time I hesitated to come out with my story, even while I read the experiences of others who had emerged alive from the incredible hell of World War IL Somehow I felt that this was my private life and I was not ready to talk about it. I just kept it inside me all these years. But having retired and being constantly prodded by my friends here and in Europe to tell my story so that it would not be forgotten, I finally decided to give it a try. My life wasn't ended by the Nazis, although they took much of it away by murdering most of my family. My life went on. I was and am a musician, a teacher, a performer, and a concert artist who has had a long international career. And that life, too, is part of my story. —Marian Filar ix
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