Eric T. Vogel (1896 – 1980) was a Czech jazz trumpeter. In 1938, Vogel played trumpet in a dixieland combo. After being arrested at

Brno Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making ...

in 1939 he was made to organize a jazz school in the Jewish ghetto of that city. In

Theresienstadt concentration camp Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination c ...

he played with

Martin Roman Martin Roman (23 April 1910 – 12 May 1996) was a German Jewish jazz pianist and Holocaust survivor. At the time of the Reichstag fire in February 1933, Martin was stopped by SS men at the entrance to the huge Vaterland emporium in Berlin, where ...

Ghetto Swingers The Ghetto Swingers were a jazz band organised in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt. The original amateur Czech band playing in the Café of the Ghetto was led by Eric Vogel and Pavel Libensky. Vogel petitioned the Kommandant on Janua ...

and

Fritz Weiss Fritz Weiss (Czech: Bedřich Weiss) (28 September 1919 – 28 September 1944) was a Czech jazz musician and arranger, active in the first half of the 20th century. He was an organizer of jazz performances and an important participant in the m ...

's Jazz-Quintet-Weiss. He escaped while being transferred to

Dachau concentration camp Dachau (, ; , ; ) was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, s ...

.A new history of jazz Alyn Shipton - 2007 "A few, such as the Czech trumpeter Eric Vogel, escaped — in his case en route to Dachau — and lived to tell the horrifying tale of his colleagues who were not so fortunate."

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*Amanda Petrusich
"The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust"
''The New Yorker'', April 22, 2019. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vogel, Eric 1896 births 1980 deaths Czech jazz musicians Czech Jews Theresienstadt Ghetto survivors Dixieland trumpeters Nazi-era ghetto inmates 20th-century trumpeters Ghetto Swingers members