We reached Arezzo by train, and the next day we took a bus to Pieve S. Stefano , home of the Piccolo Museo del Diario (Little Museum of the Diary). We consulted and selected for scanning the diaries of interned and deported Jewish musicians such as Armando Scipioni, Gualtiero Morpurgo, Liliana Giaccari, Corrado Celada, Anna Bonifacio, Enno Mucchiutti, Giuseppe Andriolo, Gino Glisenti, Medoro Ligabue, Ille Strazza, Rocco Vitucci, Giornando Barbari, Mario Nocchi, Angelo Remorini, and Gaetano Ferrara.

The next day we took the train to Milan, flew back to Krakow , and then took the train to Opole , home of the Central Museum of Jeńców Wojennych, dedicated primarily to prisoners of war and Polish civilians of all religious and social origins. We scanned a wealth of musical material written in camps opened by Germany in Silesia and Romania.

We returned to Krakow in the evening and connected with Emanuel Regina , a sound engineer and English speaker, who made it possible to produce numerous reels of the trip as well as provide language assistance; the BBC also joined us and filmed a documentary.

The next day we reached the Auschwitz Museum , where we had long since booked a…