Erhard Eduard Wechselmann (1895–1943) was a German

baritone A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ...

who was murdered in

Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

. According to Peter Hugh Reed writing in '' American Record Guide'', 1949, he also sang with the Metropolitan Opera in 1890. Under the Nazi regime, Wechselmann performed for Jewish audiences, on at least one occasion with the contralto

Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann also formerly Ottilie Metzger-Froitzheim (15 July 1878 – February 1943) was a German contralto who was a famous performer of works by Wagner during the 1910s, and who after her retirement was murdered in Auschwitz. C ...

who was also to perish in Auschwitz. Dinah Shelton Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity 2 2005 "However, among them are: the baritone and cantor Erhard E. Wechselmann, murdered in Auschwitz; the contralto Magda Spiegel, murdered in Auschwitz;

Richard Breitenfeld Richard Breitenfeld (13 October 1869 – 16 December 1944) was a German baritone. He was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble and was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Breitenfeld was born in Reichenberg (now in the Cze ...

, a member of the Frankfurt opera ensemble, murdered in Theresienstadt"

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