Henryk Hirsz Hanoch Barenblat (born 1914,

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, date of death unknown) was a Polish-born Israeli musician and conductor, known for his role as head of the

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in the

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and subsequent legal cases in Poland and Israel which ended with his acquittal by the

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in 1963. He studied piano at the Silesian Music Conservatory in Katowice. In 1953–1956 he was a tutor and conductor at the State Operetta in Gliwice He also worked in a theater in Ostrava. He then settled in Israel and was the conductor of the Israeli National Opera. In 1960 he moved to Germany. He worked as a theater conductor, e.g. in Cologne. In 1955 he was decorated

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*Avihu Ronen, Hadas Agmon & Asaf Danziger (2011) "Collaborator or Would-Be Rescuer? The Barenblat Trial and the Image of a Judenrat Member in 1960s Israel" ''

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'' * 1914 births Year of death missing 20th-century Polish Jews Israeli conductors (music) Jewish Ghetto Police People from Będzin Polish conductors (music) Polish emigrants to Israel {{Israel-bio-stub

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