The Lost Music of Auschwitz 2025
documentary-film
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Marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Sky Arts has commissioned a 90 minute Documentary called The Lost Music of Auschwitz, telling the remarkable story of British composer and conductor Leo Geyer’s eight-year mission to piece together a treasure-trove of forgotten fragments of music manuscripts found in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.
Now, he and his orchestra will finally play the music he has painstakingly uncovered, exactly as it would have sounded at Auschwitz, in some cases for the first time in 80 years.
The Lost Music of Auschwitz will air on January 20th at 9pm on Sky Arts, Freeview and NOW Auschwitz-Birkenau was home to at least six orchestras, formed of prisoners and commissioned by the SS. Many of the manuscripts they left behind are almost too faint to read, while others are damaged beyond recognition.
The film follows Leo on this musical journey as he discovers how the musicians rebelled with secret performances, weaving forbidden melodies into concerts. The film is interwoven with powerful interviews with some of the last remaining survivors, and special performances from Leo’s orchestra.