The Music Maker of Auschwitz

'This is a gripping story of a strong but simple man who found himself in two world wars, with two great passions: one for music that helped him survive; one for his wife who helped him live.’ — Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life

Captured at Dunkirk in 1940, accomplished musician Drum Major Henry Barnes Jackson promised his wife he would return home to serenade her again. Instead, he was marched through a brutal system of Nazi prison camps where survival was never guaranteed.

In 1942, Jackson ...