Magda Spiegel - Silenced too soon

Her fate was shared by many Jewish artists under the National Socialists: Magda Spiegel, born in Prague in 1887, left Dusseldorf to join the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 1917, rising quickly to stardom as a dramatic contralto. Contemporaries praised her as one of the greatest operatic voices - until she was publicly denounced in 1935, dismissed and persecuted, before being murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.