Once in Marseille , we moved on to Saint-Tropez and by taxi to Gassin to meet Orlaine Paquin Letourneur, daughter of the German-Jewish composer Wally Karveno Paquin , arrested in Paris on charges of espionage and transferred in 1941 to the Gurs internment camp; Wally Karveno wrote the Concertino op.28 for piano and chamber orchestra (released, she returned to Paris).

Paquin donated to the ILMC Foundation the manuscript of the Concertino op.28 and all the other works written by Karveno before and after her internment, as well as her correspondence and photographic material .

We travelled by TGV from Marseille to Paris where we met Dominique Losay , son of the French composer André Losay who was interned at Stalag IIIB Fürstenberg/Oder ; Losay promised to donate to the ILMC Foundation the Cahier des prisonniers , a handwritten notebook in which his father wrote numerous songs during his imprisonment in the Stalag (the Cahier was subsequently donated by Losay himself to the ILMC Foundation).

The research continued in Thionville , where Paul Arma's collection of Resistance and concentration camp music is located. Previously, the material was located in Thionville, in a museum that closed years ago. Today, it is housed…