At the State Archives in Rome , we acquired documents on the Jewish internment in Italy during World War II; we traveled to Padua to meet Lucia Rampazzo, director of the Internment Museum, and researcher Patrizia Citeroni , and we acquired books.

From Padua we traveled by train to Mestre and then to Klagenfurt (Austria) where the next day we met Božo Hartmann , son of the Austrian choir director Foltej Hartmann who was deported to Dachau. Bozo gave us photographic material, a library, and a notebook of choral pieces performed by the Slavic choir of the deportees headed to Dachau by his father. The notebook was scanned and returned.

We then traveled by bus to Vienna , where the next day we met Christiane Fennesz-Juhasz , director of the Mozes Heinschink Sammlung , the most important phonograph collection on Sinti and Roma music; we believe it is essential to combine this research with the Jewish one for reasons concerning the connections of musical languages in Birkenau and other camps.

We traveled by train to Nuremberg (Germany) to meet Waldemar , son of the Polish composer Józef Kropinski, who was deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Waldemar gave us an anastatic…