Wojciech Klimczyk (PhD) and Agata Świerzowska (PhD) are university lecturers at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations (CCSC) at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Since its foundation in 1996, the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations (CCSC) has forged a distinct identity and earned a solid reputation as an interdisciplinary research and academic department unparalleled in Central Europe.

• Contents: M. J. Grant/Mareike Jacobs/Rebecca Möllemann/Simone Christine Münz/Cornelia Nuxoll: Music, the «Third Reich», and «The 8 Stages of Genocide» – Arman Goharinasab/Azadeh Latifkar Geok Tepe Muğam: A Musical Narrative of Turkmen Massacre in 1881 – Katarzyna Naliwajek- Mazurek: The Functions of Music within the Nazi System of Genocide in Occupied Poland – Joanna Posłuszna/Łukasz Posłuszny: The Aural Landscape of Majdanek – Kirsten Dyck: White-Power Music and the Memory of the Holocaust – Leszek Sosnowski: The Holocaust - the Code of Death without the Alphabet of Life – Ralph Buchenhorst: «…as if the shame before the victims would be offended» - Adorno’s Verdict on Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw – Matt Lawson: Towards a Critical Understanding of Representational and Semantic Issues within Hanns Eisler’s Score for Nuit et Brouillard (1955) – Joanna Posłuszna: «We remember»: The Trauma of the Holocaust in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Work – Wojciech Klimczyk: Impossible Music? On Genocide as Silence (Rwanda, Auschwitz and Beyond) – Lawrence Kramer: Afterword: Genocide, Music, and the Name.