The Polish musician Jozef Kropinski was born on 28 December 1913 in Berlin. He returned at a young age to his family’s homeland of Poland, where he completed his musical training. On 7 May 1940, Kropinski was arrested by the Gestapo for publishing an underground newspaper, and sent to Auschwitz. During more than four years of imprisonment at the camp, he composed over one hundred songs and poems
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