Ludwik Holcman [SEP] date of birth
Ludwik Holcman
Ludwik Holcman (1889 – August 1942) was a Polish violinist.
Holcman was a violinist in the Warsaw Ghetto Symphony Orchestra that was led by Simon Pullman. As he was Jewish, he was transported to Treblinka extermination camp with all the members of the orchestra early in August 1942, where they were killed, presumably shortly after their arrival.
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wife, and was trapped there by the German invasion. Imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, he directed (beneath the orchestra founders Marian Neuteich and Adam Furmanski) the Warsaw Ghetto Symphony Orchestra, which included among notable musicians, Ludwik Holcman. The band performed frequently from 1940-1942. Pullman was transported to Treblinka extermination camp in early August 1942, and like him all of the members of the orchestra were presumed to have been killed.
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- Article for Simon Pullman in: Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen