In Milan , at the Teatro La Scala , during a seminar on musicians discriminated against during the Second World War to which I was invited, it was possible to access musical and literary material on the Jewish musicians interned in Ferramonti di Tarsia.

In Milan, we met Paola Mandel, daughter of the world-famous writer and artist Gabriele Mandel; Paola gave us a well-preserved copy of her father's Canto .

After a flight to Prague , we conducted some research at the Židovské Muzeum in Prague and submitted a request to acquire in high definition some works written in Theresienstadt; the requested works arrived two months later via download.

We met again with Ivan , son of the Czech composer Rudolf Karel, imprisoned in the Pankrác penitentiary and at the Kleine Festung in Theresienstadt; in two meetings 48 hours apart we photographed the musical and epistolary material produced by Karel in Pankrác.

We have thus acquired complete photographic reproductions of the works written on sheets of light blue tissue paper and notebook pages, notes that Karel secretly hid in his dirty laundry during the Pankrác period to communicate with his family. The photographed material is copious and of crucial importance…