Abstract

The two case studies in this chapter are built on remnants: a torn musical score, worn photographs, incomplete identity documents, and a few concert programs and postcards. Ella Jonas-Stockhausen (1883–1967) was a German-Jewish pianist who survived the war in Berlin through her marriage to a Catholic biologist. In 1945, she resumed concertizing, performing the mainstays of German Classical and Romantic repertoire. Erich Adler (1911–1982) was a Czech-German Jewish musician who composed a series of works about his Terezín internment but was unable to publish them. Unlike most of the figures in this book, neither Adler nor Jonas-Stockhausen spoke publicly about their survivorship during their lifetime. That latency, or belatedness, is what comprises the “inaudible music” of their survival.