Artist card of Django Reinhardt (1910–1953). The guitarist founded the legendary ‘Quintette du Hot Club de France’ in Paris, France, in 1934, introducing jazz to Europe and establishing his own musical style. It is a little-known fact that the Belgian Manusch only survived the years of Nazi occupation in France thanks to his popularity, protection and luck. When he was asked to give a concert in Berlin, he fled to Switzerland in November 1943. There, however, he was refused refugee status and deported again.
Many thousands of Sinti and Roma musicians were persecuted between 1933 and 1945 and hundreds were murdered. To this day, the extent of this cultural loss is not sufficiently known and has also not been researched.
