Future Memories: Lotoro's journey in search of music written in concentration camps continues in Poland and the Czech Republic
- Fondazione ILMC
- Jun 16
- 1 min read

Francesco Lotoro 's journey in search of music composed in concentration camps and other places of civilian and military captivity around the world continues in Poland and the Czech Republic . The project "Future Memories. Lotoro's Journey to Save the Lost Music ," of which this journey is also part, is promoted by the Fondazione Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria ETS and supported by the Claims Conference (New York), the Puglia Region, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe (London), the Righteous Persons Foundation (Los Angeles), and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris) . The journey was undertaken together with Grazia Tiritiello , vice president of the ILMC Foundation.
At Milan Linate airport, Lotoro and Tiritiello boarded a plane to Krakow where, the next day, they met again with Christof Kulisiewicz , who gave them the last manuscripts of his father Aleksander Kulisiewicz , one of his paintings (he was also an excellent painter) and the handkerchief he wore at Sachsenhausen.
That same afternoon they left for Prague , where the next day they met again with Ivan, son of the Czech composer Rudolf Karel, finally managing to acquire all the manuscripts of all the works written by Rudolf Karel before and during his imprisonment.
In the photos: Francesco Lotoro in Krakow with Christof Kulisiewicz; in Prague with Ivan Karel; on the train with suitcases full of musical documents