Coco Schumann obituary

Jazz musician forced to play the guitar in Auschwitz as victims were selected for the gas chamberCoco Schumann, who has died aged 93, was always at pains to stress that he was, as he put it, “a musician who spent time in a concentration camp, not a concentration camp prisoner who made music”. He said that music had defined his life, and he was convinced it was music that had been responsible for his survival.Partly out of a wish not to allow the Nazis a prominent place in his biograp