Happy boys

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The Happy Boys were a Jewish music band in Germany from 1945 to 1949.

Band history

Jack Eisner and friends founded a Jewish jazz band in Cham after their liberation by the US troops in 1945 . They played Yiddish pieces of music and jazz numbers in DP camps for displaced people in Germany with musical instruments buried in Poland before the Second World War . In his book, Jack Eisner also talks about plans to retaliate against her previous torturers from the concentration camps . But it didn't come to that. After the band members emigrated to America in 1949, the band broke up.

literature

  • Jack Eisner: The Happy Boys: a Jewish band in Germany 1945 to 1949 . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3351025718 .

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