On April 6, 1947, the
United Service for New Americans sponsored a special Passover celebration to be
aired on the radio. The broadcast, Out of
the Wilderness, featured five survivors of the Holocaust who gave musical performances
on the air.  One of the featured musicians was Kurt
Maier, a Czech Jew and survivor of Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Ohrdruf and
Buchenwald.

















David Timmons, the
announcer of the production, introduced Maier, saying "




You’ve surely heard of our
next guest.  His story has been
published far and wide in the United States … his name is Kurt Maier.  Once his art was acclaimed, not only in
his native land of Czechoslovakia, but throughout the world.  Then the Nazis changed that world.  The concert hall became the
concentration camp.  And the Nazis called
upon Kurt Maier to play when they shipped him to that terrible place called
Auschwitz."   -SHOULD I INCLUDE THE QUOTE OR JUST PLAY?

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