Elkan Bauer

Elkan Bauer ( born April 4, 1852 in Mikulov, Moravia, † September 20, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian composer and songwriter.

Life

Elkan farmer could neither read music nor write, but the melodies he whistled, were written down and at outdoor concerts and played at Vienna's Garden Café. He was deported in 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered there in the same year. His granddaughter, the Auschwitz survivor Elisa Springer, wrote the book "The Silence of the Living", which manages named after her Fondazione Elisa Springer 's estate builder.