Scratching below the surface

Bergkristall Tunnels (photo credits: Helga Loidold)

In 1944 at St. Georgen near the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp in Austria, the SS began one of the major tunnel projects of German war-time industry codenamed “Bergkristall” to house subterranean facilities for the production of Messerschmitt fighter planes. Construction of tunnels was pushed forward without regard to the [...]

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The Story in the Music

Mona Golabek playing in Steinway Hall, as she tells her mother's story.

Sitting at the piano bench, Lisa Jura would tell her daughter that each piece of music tells its own story, you just have to listen to what it is and then she would weave the stories into the movements – the stories of [...]

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