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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Viktor Ullmann, Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kitty Hart-Moxon, Herbert Czaja, Jaromir Nohavica, Jozef Buzek, Svatopluk Havelka, Jozef Kiedro, Tadeusz Michejda, Emil Zegad owicz, P emysl Ko i, Toma Pospichal, Aleksander Zawadzki, Ondra ysohorsky, Ryszard Staniek, Ji i T anovsky, Karol H awiczka, Hermann Heller, Pavla Topolankova, Herbert Kisza, Jozef Chlebowczyk, Leopold Otto, Samuel Ludwik Zasadius, Franti ek Slama, Theodor Kotschy, Andrzej Kotula, John Sarkander, Jan Smeterlin, Johann Adam Steinmetz, Idzi Panic, Andrzej H awiczka, Zygmunt Pawlas, Jan Olbrycht, Janusz Spyra, Carl Friedrich Kotschy, Jan Drabina, Wac aw Maciejowski, Jozef Farny, Teofil Adamecki, Ludvik A kenazy, Stanis awa Tomczyk, Stanislav Pi tak, Wanda W odarczyk, Janusz Kr elok, Rafa li, Jan Szwarc, W adys aw Michejda, Jakub Skrobanek, Tadeusz Kope, Rudolf Ramek, W odzimierz D browski, Bernadeta Bocek-Piotrowska, Leopold Tajner, Adam Christian Agricola, Karol Kulisz, Richard Konkolski, Jozef Balcar, Franz Pacher, Leopold Innocenty Nepomucen Polzer. Excerpt: Viktor Ullmann (1 January 1898, in Teschen - 18 October 1944, in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a Silesia-born Austrian, later Czech composer, conductor and pianist of Jewish origin. Viktor Ullmann was born on January 1, 1898 in T in (Teschen), modern esky T in / Cieszyn. It belonged then to Silesia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now divided between Cieszyn in Poland and esky T in in the Czechoslovakia. Both his parents were from families of Jewish descent, but had converted to Roman Catholicism before Viktor's birth. As an assimilated Jew, his father, Maximilian, was able to pursue a career as a professional officer in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In World War I he was promoted to colonel and ennobled. One writer has described Ullman's milieu in these terms: "Like such ot...
