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Music in KZ Gusen


Remy Gillis


Remy Gillis came to KZ Gusen I in 1943.

In March 1944 he composed the music of "Chant dī Espoir" (Song of Hope) to the words of Jean Cayrol at KZ Gusen I Camp.


Gracjan (Jasio) Guzinski


In 1942 Grajzan (Jasio) Guszinsky composed "Marsz b. Wiezniow Politycznych" (The March of the Political Prisoners) to the words of his comrad Konstanty Cwierk (+1944) at KZ Gusen Concentration Camp.

Guzinski also wrote the music for "Golgotha" (a prison song) by Konstanty Cwierk at KZ Gusen Concentration Camp.

Furthermore he composed the music for the following known pieces:

An International Concentration Camp Hymn


According to "Songs from the Depths of Hell" by Aleksander Kulisiewicz, at the end of 1944 in the KZ Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp an attempt was made by prisoners to write an International Concentration Camp Hymn. The song mentions KZ Gusen and the names of many camps and was intended to show the how vast was the scheme and scope of the SS system of slavery ...

The audio-cassette "Songs from the Depth of Hell" with this hymn can be ordered via Smithsonian Folkways (simply enter "Kulisiewicz" to find "Songs from the Depth of Hell" ) at Washington, D.C.

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