Abstract

The date was October 10, 1942. The 2,500 seats in Orchestra Hall in Chicago were sold out with mostly German-speaking concertgoers, both longtime residents and more recently arrived immigrants (or refugees, as they were called at the time). The event was a concert by Hermann Leopoldi, “Vienna’s most popular entertainer” as the playbill touted1. With him was his relatively new partner, Helen (Helly) Moeslein. The next day the reviewer for the Chicago Tribune wrote the following:

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