the cellist of auschwitz and other members of the big canal woman s orchestra could not easily be exchanged or replaced. at the same time mrs lask of our fish music was an internal place of refuge that is how you strikingly described it as a place the nazis could not take away from the original mental image a place where you managed thanks to your work on your instrument and in the orchestra to maintain a shred of human dignity. and as we played for our lives which is how it jazz musician coco schumann who died on sunday one summed up his membership of the ghetto swingers in terrorising and later on in auschwitz believes arts as a means of survival and it from ourselves and it s he was spoke here in two thousand and twelve it was literature and for others it was drawing and painting that is really artist yahoo dot com for instance said that street arts helped him to survive mentally in auschwitz after i was. at the age of thirteen he