Meet The Holocaust Survivor Band

Two Holocaust survivors are telling their stories through song. Neil Reisner of Jewniverse writes that Saul Dreier, 91, and Reuwen “Ruby” Sosnowicz, 88 are the Holocaust Survivor Band, a unique outfit that’s telling the world through their Yiddish and Hebrew tunes that they beat Hitler – and are creating great music while they do so.

The idea for the band came from Dreier, who survived the camps then immigrated to the U.S. in 1949.

In 2014, Dreier, who plays drums, read an obituary of pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, deemed the oldest survivor, who played in Theresienstadt. He decided to start a band with Sosnowicz, a former hairdresser and professional keyboardist originally from Warsaw.

Now the band plays venues across the United States. One memorable show was when they played for a gathering of survivors.

This past February, both men lost their wives. Today, they’re raising money for a trip to Poland where they’ll “sing from our hearts to our parents and all those poor people who were killed.”

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