As It Happens6:21After 80 years in the archives, this British composer is restoring music written in Auschwitz
When British composer and conductor Leo Geyer was commissioned to write a piece of music in memory of a Holocaust historian, he decided to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum on a research mission.
But he never imagined that while visiting the site of the extermination camp once operated in Nazi-occupied Poland, he’d get his hands on the manuscripts of original compositions written by members of a prisoner orchestra nearly a century ago.
“I had a conversation with one of the archivists about [the orchestras]. And he then said
